Re: [gentoo-user] Installing software without an internet connection

[M. Sitorus]

maybe this link will help :
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-79884-highlight-networkless+scripts.html

as for portage tree, you could update your portage tree using
emerge-webrsync. Just download the portage tree snapshots tarball,
then put it on /tmp/emerge-webrsync/

On 11/5/08, Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan Neomal
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> Hi
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>  I was able to complete the Gentoo installation and boot into my system
> successfully. I only downloaded the Live CD, But the live CD only
> contains a limited number of packages and... I do not have an internet
> connection at home since its very expensive for us.
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>  Is their any possible way that i can get a Software collection
> downloaded for my Gentoo box . I have a P3 with 256 RAM when xfce is
> combined with Gnome my PC runs slow. I am not much of a xfce/Gnome /KDE
> fan but since I have no way of getting packages in to my PC I am facing
> difficulties.
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> Also my gentoo root partition (/) is only 5GB But it has already
> consumed almost 50% of the partition space. Is their a possible way of
> getting more spacxe freed in the PC .
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Salam,

Marc