On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 17:33, you wrote: > But will the below method allow me to grab all the > gentoo stuff off the 'net during the brief window of > opportunity of having a T1 d/l pipe, thus allowing > me to "install" off the local drive at my leisure > when I lose the T1? > > I need to d/l *everything* while I have the chance. The total size of the Gentoo archive is now >> 10Gbytes. The source archive is a dynamic thing with the gentoo file-set changing everyday as packages get added or updated. Doing a snapshot dl of the complete archive will of yield a fair number of files which will inevitably become useless fairly soon. The source code files are in the distfiles subdirectory. ftp://203.96.92.95/gentoo/distfiles/ As you can see there are several versions of many packages of which you will only need one. I have what I feel is a pretty fullsome archive of stuff, but it is 'only' 1790672 blocks i.e. 1.8Gb
Are you sure that's what you really want to do? If so you could get a list of the files using the ftp command line utility and use wget to retrieve the files in the list one by one > Yuri > > On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 14:10, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 14:02, you wrote: > > > Where should I start in this endeavour? > > > > D/L the appropriate CD1 from here:- > > > > ftp://203.96.92.95/gentoo/releases/x86/1.4/livecd > > > > Cut the .iso image to a CD. > > ( Yes you do need to do this step. It makes it so much easier. On pain of > > death, real uber-gurus could probably start off from Tom's Root and Boot, > > but I'd have to start by booting a CD. :-) > > > > Boot it. > > Mount the CD on /mnt/cdrom > > Follow the instructions, the command to use is:- > > links file:///mnt/cdrom/install.html > > > > There are a few issues with the X-11 server to be sorted out, but it's > > not difficult. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
