[gentoo-user] Re: Handbook missing portage unpacking

2014-10-12 Thread James
Rich Freeman rich0 at gentoo.org writes: Correct. This is much more efficient than rsync when you're starting from an empty tree, which was one of the reasons the old procedure used to recommend using a portage tarball. emerge-webrsync works well I'll have to try thiswebsync sometime. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Handbook missing portage unpacking

2014-10-12 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 10:12 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: thx to all that responded. It had been a while since I followed a handbook install. I wonder when btrfs will replace ext..(just kidding...) Nothing prevents you from installing Gentoo on btrfs. It really isn't

[gentoo-user] Re: Handbook missing portage unpacking

2014-10-11 Thread James
James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: I was just following the handbook for an amd64 install; I have not looked at the handbook in a while. I downloaded the stage3 tarball and the portage-latest tarball at the same time, like I always have done. The handbook give instructions for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Handbook missing portage unpacking

2014-10-11 Thread Daniel Frey
On 10/11/2014 01:37 PM, James wrote: James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: I was just following the handbook for an amd64 install; I have not looked at the handbook in a while. I downloaded the stage3 tarball and the portage-latest tarball at the same time, like I always have done.