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On 26 February 2012 17:10, John <irgunii@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sunday, February 26, 2012 09:50 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> <snip> |
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>> Assuming you have a handy Linux LiveCD (any distro) it's better to |
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>> download the stage3 as these are built daily and of all the available |
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>> methods, it's the most recent. But beware that you will still need to |
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>> download almost all the source code all over again with the first |
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>> update, and this is somewhere around 2G if you use KDE or Gnome. |
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> Aha! So the stage 3 tarball's I'm seeing at |
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> http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/x86/autobuilds/current-stage3/ won't be the same as |
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> what the 12.0 DVD will have, correct? The stage tarballs are just the barest minimum |
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> stuff, with only a few window managers and no DE's, correct? |
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> So, what I basically was right about at first, the only *real* problem I'll have with |
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> trying to run a Gentoo system is my dial-up (presuming I can get along just fine with |
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> command line stuff and whatever). Still...if I absolutely *must* do an update of some kind |
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> of huge MB download thing, can I not just go to the gentoo sources webpage, download |
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> whatever it was I needed (being on someone's fast pipe of course), put that on a CD or |
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> DVD, take it back home and have the update app install it from said CD or DVD? If this is |
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> possible, then I just might have this thing licked! |
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To do an install offline , you will need: |
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- An installation environment (any LiveCD at all, or another |
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linux/freebsd(?) install on the same machine) |
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- A stage3 to unpack (this is the base of your install) |
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- A portage snapshot (today's list of packages which are installable |
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and scripts to install them). |
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Once you have the stage and snapshot unpacked, you will hit a point |
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where you need the source of some packages to continue (grub and a |
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kernel, as a bare minimum). At this point, the handbook will tell you |
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to "emerge foo". If instead you run "emerge -fp foo >> get-these.txt", |
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you will get a list of links to all the files that you will need to |
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download to continue. Take this to the nearest internet, and put the |
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files in /usr/portage/distfiles, and compile away! |
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