On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 19:55:36+1200 Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 17:33, you wrote: > > either copy them from the cd/dvd into /usr/portage or change the > > distfile dir in /etc/make.conf. > > > > HOWEVER if emerge decides it wants something that is not on the cd, > > it will try and download it and write it onto the cd/dvd, which is > > going to crap out. > > Another possibility might be to do something like this:- > > Put the Gentoo source files CD in the drive. > > mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom > cd /usr/portage/distfiles > ln -s /mnt/cdrom . > > we now have a writable directory with hundred of links to the readonly > files on the CD but any new downloaded files can be written in the > normal way. now surely when you try to write something to /usr/portage/distfiles it will try to write to /mnt/cdrom?????? > > -- > C. S. > > --
