This will save a lot of time, ta. I may yet end up with a favourite/reliable install on the lappie!..
Nick Rout wrote:
Chris and I will both have up to date portage trees and a lot of the stuff in distfiles (ie the sometimes large source files)
Chris is your box set up so another box can rsync to it?
On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 12:21:10 +1200
Rik Tindall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I got as far as "#emerge sync" (1.5 hrs on dialup) but didn't go on to emerge portage at the time. So both these tasks would be better (re)done on a faster network link. Then I'd be tackling why X only runs as root -
how are you starting X - using the xdm service I hope.
#startx ($startx baulks)
insecure & unacceptable at the point at which I stopped using Gentoo.
this sounds like fun, nothing better than screw^h^h^h^h^h fixing someone elses laptop :)
do your darnedest - the partition is recyclable! ;-)
