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On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 07:24:44 +0530 |
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Nilesh Govindrajan <me@××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Thursday 13 February 2014 06:14 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > On 13/02/2014 02:40, Edward M wrote: |
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> >> Howdy, |
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> >> |
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> >> Been busy learning Linux :-) got new email other was getting |
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> >> crowded. I'm planing on installing Gentoo on a few systems and I |
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> >> was wondering to save bandwidth, i could install portage to the |
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> >> other Gentoo installs from my system instead downloading from |
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> >> mirrors? |
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> >> |
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> >> Thanks in advance! |
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> >> |
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> > Yes. |
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> > The stage are just tarballs, download them once, copy to the new |
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> > location and unpack. |
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> > Same with the portage snapshots. |
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> > Same with the distfiles. |
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> > they are just files, copy them to where they need to be and use |
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> > them, or let emerge find them. |
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> > Read the install docs first and learn more about how Linux works on |
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> > the command line. Pretty soon you'll find the bits where the manual |
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> > says "download such-and-such from this place" and you'll spot that |
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> > if you already have the downloadable file you can just use it |
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> > already. |
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> If you have a common machine or NAS, put them there. You can mount |
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> /usr/portage to NAS / NFS. It does work. |
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Thanks for the great advice. I will start reading on how setting |
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an NFS system, since,i already have the Gentoo nfs wiki and an old |
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amd64 pc just sitting here collecting dust. |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/NFSv4 |
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Regards |
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