Dear All,
I'm new to Gentoo - so new that I haven't installed it yet. My big hangup is that I don't have broadband, and there is no hope of getting it where I live. One friend of mine (who does have broadband) has offered to download the whole lot of Gentoo emerge files and burn these onto CD.
So my question: Is this a feasible approach? Both my friend and I are not familiar with Gentoo, we don't know if putting the emerge files onto CD solves the problem. We both think it will work, but if anybody thinks this approach is boneheaded, I'd like to hear from you. I'd love to hear any suggestions on putting Gentoo onto CD in such a way that it can be installed without any need to go online, as most other Linux distros are installed this way.
You have two options.
(1) Wait for Gentoo 1.4 available on around August 5 which will include most base packages and WMs on cd and comes with printed instructions (store.gentoo.org).
(2) Get all files from /usr/portage/distfiles/* on a computer with Gentoo fully installed and copy those files to the same location on the computer which you wish to installl Gentoo. Then do chown -R root.root /usr/portage/distfiles to make sure there are no discrepancies in ownership.
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