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> 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? No, they aren't sources. They are binary packages ready for installation on a Gentoo system. .tbz2 is a .tar.bz2 with an attached trailing section that contains metadata. > > Extapolationg from the next paragraph, would 'emerge -fp ??? >> > listFile' get me a list of what is needed? Can that list be downloaded > with wget? That will give a long list of URI's, yes. Not sure if they are line-break compatible with wget or not, but i think they are. //Spider -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end
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