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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.


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