On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 08:01:13PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > Fristly Thanks for the suggestions
> On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 09:27:40PM +1100, David Chandraratnae couple ways i think > you could do it. a) download all the tarballs you'll need to a cd and copy them to the install machine before you run the install. b) chroot a section of a hard disc @work and do the install there. then somehow copy the whole system to the install box. i've never done either, so i can't even vouch for the likelygood of success, but i thought i'd throw in my 2cents. well there's a couple ways i think you could do it. Think that I might be able to give part a: a go, well will try it anyway. > > I was wondering is there a simple way to install gentoo without having > > internet access. > > This is because I do not have internet access at home and thus cannot do a > > emerge sync. > > I you have a friend which has Gentoo installed, he/she could burn you > /usr/portage on a CD (there is the portage tree and the distfiles (if he > hadn't deleted them) in it). Unfortunately I know noone that is running gentoo, as we are all debian people here as there is a mirror on campus. Is there a place that I can download the portage tree from? I will try to get someone with a spare machine to install gentoo on a partition so that I can make a copy though. -- Dave Chandraratnam Being an executioner is really the only way to get a head in this life -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
