On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 02:44:02 +0200
Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> 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.
>
>
>
Thanks for the reply. this sounds more complicated and i think I
will wait on installing gentoo on the other systems, until, i
have gather all the needed docs and howtos. so portage
installation will go smoothly.
regards
--
Learing Linux with Gentoo to earn LPIC1.
