Re: [gentoo-user] x86 Packages CD image

2006-04-28 Thread Rumen Yotov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joseph Kulisics wrote: Hi, I'm trying to prepare a very old system for use in a laboratory, and while I normally do the source installation, the initial parts of the installation of this old system were so slow that I don't think a source

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 Packages CD image

2006-04-28 Thread Joseph Kulisics
: Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] x86 Packages CD image -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joseph Kulisics wrote: Hi, I'm trying to prepare a very old system for use

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 Packages CD image

2006-04-28 Thread Rumen Yotov
/~kulisics/ On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, Rumen Yotov wrote: Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 09:21:46 +0300 From: Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] x86 Packages CD image Joseph Kulisics wrote: Hi, I'm trying

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 Packages CD image

2006-04-28 Thread Jeremy Olexa
Joseph Kulisics wrote: Hi, I looked at the torrents page before---http://torrents.gentoo.org/---but the only package files are for architectures other than x86. If I could find the CD image, then I know how to use emerge to refer to the CDROM for package installation; I just can't find a

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 Packages CD image

2006-04-28 Thread Jim
On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 10:42 +0300, Rumen Yotov wrote: Hi, Can't find anything, too. As last resort, if your arch is at at least i686 you could use the liveCD-2006.0 directly (to install) or start it and using quickpkg make your own binary packages. Save them elsewhere, and use later. If arch

[gentoo-user] x86 Packages CD image

2006-04-27 Thread Joseph Kulisics
Hi, I'm trying to prepare a very old system for use in a laboratory, and while I normally do the source installation, the initial parts of the installation of this old system were so slow that I don't think a source installation is practical. I would like to use binary packages for

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 Packages CD image

2006-04-27 Thread Bogo Mipps
On Friday 28 April 2006 17:08, Joseph Kulisics wrote: Does anyone know where you can download an image of preceompiled x86 packages or how you can tell emerge to look for precompiled packages on the web? Try http://kororaa.org/static.php?page=static060311-170736 (Gentoo-based binary distro)