Thanks a lot for the tips! I'll start with the iso image. I think it is only 16MB.
Regards, Cid. --- Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > On Fri, > > Hi Collins. > > > > Do you know if with a great deal of patience is it > > possible to build a Gentoo system using dial-up > > connections? I wouldn�t matter if it download only > a > > dozen of packages a day and compile those, but it > > would need to be able to continue on the next day > from > > the point it stopped. > > > > Yes. After you get over the initial pain of > downloading and burning the > iso image to install your initial system (BTW, the > image is smaller than > most, since it only contains the bare essentials for > creating a bootable > system), it's easy to do that. > > 1) perform "emerge rsync" ( this updates your > portage tree with the > current descriptors for packages(ebuilds). Not a > big download. > > 2) setup a script that issues 'emerge --fetchonly > dir/buildname' > commands to run overnight while you catch some z's. > Put in all the > package names you want to install next day. Each > package (...tar.gz) > will be downloaded to the /usr/portage/distfiles > directory. When you > issue 'emerge dir/buildname' the next day, portage > will find the > downloaded source and get to work right away. > > If you need any help, let me know. > > -- > Collins Richey - Denver Area - WWTLRD? > Gentoo_rc6-15 2.4.17 - xfce + sylpheed + mozilla ===== "It said it uses Windows 95 or better, so I loaded Linux!" _______________________________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Empregos O trabalho dos seus sonhos pode estar aqui. Cadastre-se hoje mesmo no Yahoo! Empregos e tenha acesso a milhares de vagas abertas! http://br.empregos.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
