On Friday 07 Aug 2015 19:32:19 Mick wrote: > On Friday 07 Aug 2015 15:51:24 James` wrote: > > Neil Bothwick <neil <at> digimed.co.uk> writes: > > > > > That's what Gentoo did years ago. You could download a DVD with > > > > > prebuilt binary packages. It meant you could follow the handbook, > > > > > but without changing use flags from the default profiles for that > > > > > DVD, and get a running system in no time. > > > > > > > > Wasn't that the GRP option? > > > > > > That was it, I couldn't remember the name. > > > > Hmmmm (GRP option), > > > > Can anyone dig out a link to that install medium? I'm unable to find it. > > I have lots of old i(3/4/5/6_86 gear I can revisit such old installs:: > > and Sven has archived many old portage trees, if I can find that link. > > It might just be fun to do one of those old installs and an old > > installer. > > > > My current (active) oldest install is vintage 2007/2008... I do not > > upgrade it, I keep it around for nostalgic reasons.... > > I think, but could be out by a year or two, that it was c. 2006: > > http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/GRP > > Not sure if the gentoo Attic contains such images.
Hmm ... this cvs is empty: https://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-src/grp/ -- Regards, Mick
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