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On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 5:01 AM, Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan Neomal |
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<GayanNeomal.LorenzuHewa@×××××××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi |
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> I was able to complete the Gentoo installation and boot into my system |
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> successfully. I only downloaded the Live CD, But the live CD only contains a |
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> limited number of packages and... I do not have an internet connection at |
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> home since its very expensive for us. |
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> Is their any possible way that i can get a Software collection downloaded |
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> for my Gentoo box . I have a P3 with 256 RAM when xfce is combined with |
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> Gnome my PC runs slow. I am not much of a xfce/Gnome /KDE fan but since I |
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> 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 |
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> almost 50% of the partition space. Is their a possible way of getting more |
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> spacxe freed in the PC . |
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> Thanks & Regards, |
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> |
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> Gayan Lorenzu Hewa | Sub Officer | Wholesale Banking Corporate Service |
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> Center | Standard Chartered Bank |
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> (: 0115-397335): 0773-652003 6: 0115-397337 *: |
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> GayanNeomal.LorenzuHewa@×××××××××××××××××.com |
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Did you get the minimal live CD? If possible, try to get the live cd |
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that at least contains a stage3 tarbal, a portage snapshot, and some |
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precompiled packages. |
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As a side note: for a PC running on low specs I would recommend using |
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a window manager like WindowMaker or IceWM. Both of them are very |
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lightweight. |
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Regards |
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Dirk |
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