Stroller's Log: StarDate 1009.1541: > On 2 Oct 2003, at 10:06 am, Pietro Leone wrote: > > Hallo, a friend of mine (a crazy one ;-) want to download for me all > > the gentoo packages and put them into CD-ROMs. Is it possible? How > > can I use these CDs? Portage can manage CDs as sources of packages, > > as apt of Debian does? (Of course without copyng all packages into > > my HDD). What is the address to use in order to download packages? > > You may find this list positng from April interesting: > > 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
In a similar vein .... I desire the gentoo CD, but do not want to buy it; rather I want to download ISOs and burn them. And I just found the url to do just that. The why is that I have a s.l.o.o.o.o.w 28.8 connection for my home network (linux based) and my friend has WinXP on a cable modem (115K) where I use putty to do stuff on my linux box. My friend is not interested in using linux (but I'll deal with that separately). The stages thang is attractive, but running that over the dialup seems ludicrous. So, the concept that I have is to download stage1 to a CD on the WinBox, and install that; then findout what stage1 wants from the website and download that to another CD, etc. etc. etc. Or, perhaps the two CD's I found on http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/gentoo/releases/x86/1.4/livecd/x86/ will cover my needs. I was looking at LFS, but was sold on the gentoo series by the portage/emerge package management in a discussion at kplug.org . I have several platforms (486, dual pentium, pentiumPro, Athlon, and a 386 floppy firewall), so a single automatic binary doesn't do the deed. Also, each of those platforms has specific duties (in my home quasi-cluster), and I want to streamline each of the platforms to have only what I need on a particular platform for the services it is intended to perform. And yes, I joined this list on Oct4 .... TIA! -bk -- Bruce Kingsland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kingsland Konsulting {dba: Renegaid Services} 360-531-3730 _________________________________________________________________________ * All email from me is GPG signed -- below is the signature fingerprint * D/08C855DB g/04C6884B 7F00 EF76 11F7 D5FB 3393 7637 B0C9 049E 08C8 55DB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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