This might sound like a pain, but if you can find a generous soul on campus which will allow you to take your HD over and use up 45 minutes of their time, then you might be in luck.
I'm assuming you're using one of the CD's with a stage3 tarball... what you could do to save time is follow the instructions @ home and untar the stage3 tarball following instructions... then take your HD out... go to a friends house with your HD and continue where you left off (placing your HD into their box) and then doing emerge rsync. Then what you can do is find EVERYTHING you will want on your box PLUS the rest of the things you need to emerge to finish the install ( everything else the howto tells you to download ). For example you could do: emerge -uf world && emerge -f xfs-sources metalog sendmail vcron grub mplayer xfree mozilla emacs vim xfsprogs lvm-user raid-tools alsa-driver reiserfsprogs openoffice-bin blah blah blah gimp gv xpdf blah blah alsa-xmms blah blah gnome kde blah You can use the package list @ gentoo.org and a sheet of paper @ home BEFORE going over to buddies house and writing the names of packages you will want to download BEFORE going over to buddies house. and have all the tarballs download into your HD... while thats going on take your buddy out for a shake or some fast food ($5 max) and come back... come back and make sure the above turned no errors... find any remaining packages you might want and do the same emerge -f blah blah blah and then just shutdown the computer and take out your HD and go home and continue from where you left off .... downloading all those packages shouldnt take more than 30-60 minutes @ someones place if you are on a fast connection. This is how I installed Gentoo on my cousins computer as he is on a 56K :( and on AOL... Hope that helps. David Chandraratnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 > > -- Louis C. Candell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
