cothrige wrote:
The one thing you could try is pre-downloading all the tarballs you are
likely to need for the bootstrap, kernel and various utils you need, burn
them to a CD, then put them in the /usr/portage/distfiles during the
install...
I may have to look into that. Unfortunately that many individual
files is tough to download as I cannot monitor the computer I am using
and generally have to go in early, click a download and come back much
later to burn it. It is a Windows machine which makes it tougher for
me to use things like wget scripts which could be put together for my
computer. But perhaps it is an option I can work on.
No, it works perfectly this way. I've done it. With this trick, I went
to school with a CD-RW and grabbed all the files I needed, plus the
stage1 and Portage tarballs. Just don't update Portage or run "emerge
--sync" until you get a network connection or else it may want to
download updated sources.
There's a Windows version of wget somewhere out there. Get that, and
get a list of all the files you need (something like "emerge -fpu system
2> filelist.txt"). Then go to a DOS prompt and type wget -i
filelist.txt. Finally, you play the waiting game...
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Colin
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