Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo for me?

[John]

On Sunday, February 26, 2012 09:50 Alan McKinnon wrote:
>

  <snip>

> Assuming you have a handy Linux LiveCD (any distro) it's better to
> download the stage3 as these are built daily and of all the available
> methods, it's the most recent. But beware that you will still need to
> download almost all the source code all over again with the first
> update, and this is somewhere around 2G if you use KDE or Gnome.
>

  Aha! So the stage 3 tarball's I'm seeing at 
http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/x86/autobuilds/current-stage3/ won't be the same as 
what the 12.0 DVD will have, correct? The stage tarballs are just the barest minimum 
stuff, with only a few window managers and no DE's, correct?

  So, what I basically was right about at first, the only *real* problem I'll have with 
trying to run a Gentoo system is my dial-up (presuming I can get along just fine with 
command line stuff and whatever). Still...if I absolutely *must* do an update of some kind 
of huge MB download thing, can I not just go to the gentoo sources webpage, download 
whatever it was I needed (being on someone's fast pipe of course), put that on a CD or 
DVD, take it back home and have the update app install it from said CD or DVD? If this is 
possible, then I just might have this thing licked!


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