On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 21:31, you wrote: > 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??????
Oh yes, what I really mean is:- ln -s /mnt/cdrom/* . because we want to link the files not the directory. Silly me! -- C. S.
