On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 07:24:44 +0530
Nilesh Govindrajan <m...@nileshgr.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 13 February 2014 06:14 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On 13/02/2014 02:40, Edward M wrote:
> >> Howdy,
> >>
> >> Been busy learning Linux :-) got new email other was getting
> >> crowded. I'm planing on installing Gentoo on a few systems and I
> >> was wondering to save bandwidth, i could install portage to the
> >> other Gentoo installs from my system instead downloading from
> >> mirrors?
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance!
> >>
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > The stage are just tarballs, download them once, copy to the new
> > location and unpack.
> > Same with the portage snapshots.
> > Same with the distfiles.
> > they are just files, copy them to where they need to be and use
> > them, or let emerge find them.
> >
> > Read the install docs first and learn more about how Linux works on
> > the command line. Pretty soon you'll find the bits where the manual
> > says "download such-and-such from this place" and you'll spot that
> > if you already have the downloadable file you can just use it
> > already.
> >
> >
> >
>
> If you have a common machine or NAS, put them there. You can mount
> /usr/portage to NAS / NFS. It does work.
>
Thanks for the great advice. I will start reading on how setting
an NFS system, since,i already have the Gentoo nfs wiki and an old
amd64 pc just sitting here collecting dust.
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/NFSv4
Regards
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