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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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>> Been busy learning Linux :-) got new email other was getting crowded. |
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>> I'm planing on installing Gentoo on a few systems and I was wondering |
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>> to save bandwidth, i could install portage to the other Gentoo installs |
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>> from my system instead downloading from mirrors? |
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>> Thanks in advance! |
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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 them, or |
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> let emerge find them. |
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> Read the install docs first and learn more about how Linux works on the |
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> command line. Pretty soon you'll find the bits where the manual says |
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> "download such-and-such from this place" and you'll spot that if you |
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> already have the downloadable file you can just use it 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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