On 26 February 2012 17:10, John <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sunday, February 26, 2012 09:50 Alan McKinnon wrote: >> > > <snip> > >> Assuming you have a handy Linux LiveCD (any distro) it's better to >> download the stage3 as these are built daily and of all the available >> methods, it's the most recent. But beware that you will still need to >> download almost all the source code all over again with the first >> update, and this is somewhere around 2G if you use KDE or Gnome. >> > > Aha! So the stage 3 tarball's I'm seeing at > http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/x86/autobuilds/current-stage3/ won't be > the same as > what the 12.0 DVD will have, correct? The stage tarballs are just the barest > minimum > stuff, with only a few window managers and no DE's, correct? > > So, what I basically was right about at first, the only *real* problem I'll > have with > trying to run a Gentoo system is my dial-up (presuming I can get along just > fine with > command line stuff and whatever). Still...if I absolutely *must* do an update > of some kind > of huge MB download thing, can I not just go to the gentoo sources webpage, > download > whatever it was I needed (being on someone's fast pipe of course), put that > on a CD or > DVD, take it back home and have the update app install it from said CD or > DVD? If this is > possible, then I just might have this thing licked!
To do an install offline , you will need: - An installation environment (any LiveCD at all, or another linux/freebsd(?) install on the same machine) - A stage3 to unpack (this is the base of your install) - A portage snapshot (today's list of packages which are installable and scripts to install them). Once you have the stage and snapshot unpacked, you will hit a point where you need the source of some packages to continue (grub and a kernel, as a bare minimum). At this point, the handbook will tell you to "emerge foo". If instead you run "emerge -fp foo >> get-these.txt", you will get a list of links to all the files that you will need to download to continue. Take this to the nearest internet, and put the files in /usr/portage/distfiles, and compile away!
