On 22/7/03 7:33 am, "Robert Storey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. I think others have pointed out this forum posting: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=41510&highlight=portage+snapshot But you may also find this list positng from April interesting: On 17/4/03 2:38 pm, "Kurt Lieber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 02:11:37PM +0200 or thereabouts, Gour wrote: > > The entire distfiles tree is roughly 18GB, so no, it is not available on > physical media at this point. > > There is one vendor, Hiiq Inc, that does sell a DVD which contains a subset > of the distfiles tree for $10. I do not know exactly what is/isn't on that > DVD -- you would need to talk to the vendor to get that info. > > http://www.hiiq.biz/store/index.php?manufacturers_id=10 HTH, Stroller. -- Enjoyed this post? Thanks for reading - please consider employing me! Technical support / system administration - CV available on request Linux / Unix / Windows / Mac OS X - UK or anywhere considered -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
