On Sunday, February 26, 2012 07:36 Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I'm the resident old fart around here > > > > I beg your pardon. ;-) > > Dale > > :-) :-)
Heh, if I can find someone close by that has a fast connection, I bet *I'll* be the new resident old fart at 50 years of age just this last Monday the 20th. I figure if I can find a fast connection, I can get what I need downloaded and burned onto a dvd. I'll just 'update' things one or two at a time so that it's easy on my dial-up connection. If I really, really need to update something like a kernel or something else that's huge for a dial-up download, I'll just find that fast connection again and put it on a cd or dvd (I *can) 'update' (emerge? still trying to get all the nomenclature down) from a cd or dvd, right?) and do it that way. A question about the stage 3 tarball thing...if I download that instead of the iso (which is for 486 and up, whereas the tarball is 686 and better), how do I burn it (the tarball) as an iso onto a dvd so I can install Gentoo? Also, Distrowatch.com says that Gentoo has the latest in 'packages' as Feb 26, yet when I downloaded the tarball of CONTENTS, it shows mostly things (gcc, glibc, kernel, etc) that are used in the January release of Gentoo 12.0, not what Distrowatch has in their list of up-to-date lib's and such for the 26th of Feb. Where do I find the 'package' that Distrowatch seems to have found with almost everything being the latest and greatest? -- Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely, in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside on your Harley at 130 mph, thoroughly used and worn out, loudly proclaiming, "Hot damn! WHAT A FRIGGIN' RIDE!"
