Stroller's Log: StarDate 1016.1134: > On Oct 16, 2003, at 4:15 am, Bruce Kingsland wrote: > > 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). > > A stage 3 will give you only what you need for a minimal Gentoo install > - you can then download additional packages for each machine on the > LAN. However, as you have probably observed, stage3s are optimised for > different platforms, so no one will do all your machines - I don't know > what's on the 2 CDs you have found, but if they are images of the > retail Gentoo GRP 2CD sets, then they will contain useful but > non-optimised binaries.
Index of /gentoo/releases/x86/1.4/livecd/x86 x86-1.4-20030911-cd1.iso 13-Sep-2003 20:56 502M x86-1.4-20030911-cd1.iso.md5 13-Sep-2003 21:06 59 x86-1.4-20030911-cd2.iso 13-Sep-2003 20:59 455M x86-1.4-20030911-cd2.iso.md5 14-Sep-2003 19:44 59 Apache/2.0.40 Server at cudlug.cudenver.edu Port 80 Opening x86-1.4-20030911-cd1.iso with WinImage shows a stages dir with a Stage1 file of ~11MB built 9/13/03. There's also a packages dir with a whole bunch of tbz2 files. Are these all sources, or is just the gentoo-sources file the one of interest. Perhaps booting from this CD will be more informative. Do I have a tbz2 unpacker? > Additionally, any Gentoo install CD is, by definition, out of date as > soon as the Portage tree changes, within hours of its completion. Understood. > The only way to solve these two issues - to get the current version of > packages & optimise them for your architecture - is to download the > source to packages. To be honest, I would probably just bite the > bullet, install from stage1 & `emerge -f whatever` before any emerge > (the "-f" fetches the packages, but does not compile them) - it won't > take *that* long to download them. Extapolationg from the next paragraph, would 'emerge -fp ??? >> listFile' get me a list of what is needed? Can that list be downloaded with wget? > Since your friend has a fast connection, you could `emerge -Ufp world > >> somefile.txt` on your Gentoo systems. This will give you a full path > to all the files you need to download (I think it is neatest if you > only have one mirror listed in the GENTOO_MIRRORS line of > /etc/make.conf). If you boot from a Gentoo or Knoppix CD on your > friend's system, then you should be able to pipe somefile.txt into > wget, or write a one-line Bash to `for $PACKAGE in somefile.txt do wget > $PACKAGE done`, or something. Save the downloaded source tarballs on > the friend's hard-drive, then get him to burn them to CD for you. I don't think I can reboot her system to the gentoo CD and still have a valid cable connection. I don't have the details on the login stuff. But if the emerge command results in file names, and a path to them, I can fix up a batch file in the winbox to use wget to get them all, and burn them to a CD for use on my home system. > If you export the Portage tree as a NFS share on the first machine on > which you install Gentoo, you will then be able to access it > transparently from all the other machines on which you install. I would > advise this, as it will save you from downloading the same source > packages several times. When you install you will find that there will > be some upgrades to the base system, so that even if your machines have > different roles they will have a number of upgrades in common. Is there a handy boot floppy that I can use for my laptop? It doesn't have an onboard CD, but it does have an enet card in the PCMCIA slot (a Xircom 10/100/56K) that I could use to access files on my local network, and the CD in one of the desktop systems. > if you search http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user you will > see that exporting the Portage tree as a NFS share has been documented > here a number of times. OK, I'll review it. -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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Constitution is a written instrument. As such, its meaning does not alter. That which it meant when it was adopted, it means now. -- SOUTH CAROLINA v. US, 199 U.S. 437, 448 (1905)
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