Greetings, I just managed to install (network less Universal CD install) Gentoo on my Pentium 100 with 48MB of RAM (yeah, it was hard, but I got the fastest system this poor hardware ever had), its working fine with minimal on everything, but as I have limited network access (proxy), I can't update, neither the usual emerge --sync nor emerge-webrsync works, the RSYNC is blocked for sure, and I suppose webrsync is trying to download something (all downloads are filtered, except for some extensions, but tar.bz2 and tar.gz are filtered).
I scheduled the download of the last portage tree (snapshot) and MySQL and Apache latest versions and its dependencies, but I'm pretty sure I won't be able to install them, because when calculating dependencies, emerge fails (too old for the latest versions, and they're masked). So, I ask: 1) If I get the latest snapshot, will it be like an "emerge --sync"? 2) If I download all packages and dependencies, will I be able to install the masked version after pretending the "sync" with the snapshot? 3) Has anyone tried this? If I manage to install it, I'll get like 4 new servers using replication with hardware that would be trash nowadays (that's good for business). Thanks for all answers, -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -- [email protected] mailing list
