John J. Foster wrote: >All help and guidance appreciated, > >
Well, my original Gentoo installation was done with a dialup connection (not at home, mind you!), and my advice is... How about make friends with someone who has high-speed at home, and then you can drink beer and install Gentoo at the same time? :-) It took about a week before I had enough packages downloaded and installed to make the system usable. The real problem is knowing which "distfiles" (source packages) you need. The current distfiles directory on the mirrors is ~49GB...even with my cable modem at home and bittorrent I wouldn't want to tackle that! Besides you don't need all 49GB, the total 'current' distfiles is more like 2-2.5GB...the rest is old or unstable. You can use the --pretend --fetchonly options with emerge to know what files you need for what you are doing currently...but this is pretty tedious and error prone. Plus, it only tells you about the packages and dependancies you need for right now...not for the next thing you are going to install (like Gnome/KDE, Evolution/Mozilla, etc). So your life for the next week will be: get a list of source packages you need at home, download those at work, then find the next set of packages you want/need. So, I have 3 suggestions for you: 1. see above. 2. get a wifi card and see if your neighbors have high speed. 3. if you can give us an idea of what kind of software and configuration you are looking to setup (Gnome vs KDE, etc), someone on this list with a similar configuration might be kind enough to send you a listing of their distfiles directory, so you would have a good idea of what packages and versions you need to download. -Richard -- [email protected] mailing list
