Hey This actually sounds really feasible. I might be able to put this off with a bit of luck. :) Will look into this, as we are on a lan at uni.
Might involve a bit more that $5 meal as it is technically not work related. Although it would not be the first time that a open case and a spare IDE cable has helped me Thanks Dave On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 11:43:18PM +0000, Louis C. Candell wrote: > This might sound like a pain, but if you can find a generous soul on > campus which will allow you to take your HD over and use up 45 > minutes of their time, then you might be in luck. > > I'm assuming you're using one of the CD's with a stage3 > tarball... what you could do to save time is follow the instructions > @ home and untar the stage3 tarball following instructions... > > then take your HD out... go to a friends house with your HD > and continue where you left off (placing your HD into > their box) and then doing emerge rsync. > > Then what you can do is find EVERYTHING you will want on your box > PLUS the rest of the things you need to emerge to finish the install > ( everything else the howto tells you to download ). > > For example you could do: > > emerge -uf world && emerge -f xfs-sources metalog sendmail vcron grub > mplayer xfree mozilla emacs vim xfsprogs lvm-user raid-tools alsa-driver > reiserfsprogs openoffice-bin blah blah blah gimp gv xpdf blah blah > alsa-xmms blah blah gnome kde blah > > You can use the package list @ gentoo.org and a sheet of paper @ home > BEFORE going over to buddies house and writing the names of packages > you will want to download BEFORE going over to buddies house. > > and have all the tarballs download into your HD... while thats going > on take your buddy out for a shake or some fast food ($5 max) and > come back... come back and make sure the above turned no > errors... find any remaining packages you might want and do the same > emerge -f blah blah blah and then just shutdown the computer and take > out your HD and go home and continue from where you left off .... > downloading all those packages shouldnt take more than 30-60 minutes > @ someones place if you are on a fast connection. > > This is how I installed Gentoo on my cousins computer as he is on a > 56K :( and on AOL... > > Hope that helps. > > David Chandraratnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 08:01:13PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > Fristly Thanks for the suggestions > > > > > > > On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 09:27:40PM +1100, David Chandraratnae couple ways i > > > think you could do it. > > > > a) download all the tarballs you'll need to a cd and copy them to the install > > machine before you run the install. > > > > b) chroot a section of a hard disc @work and do the install there. then > > somehow copy the whole system to the install box. > > > > i've never done either, so i can't even vouch for the likelygood of success, > > but i thought i'd throw in my 2cents. > > well there's a couple ways i think you could do it. > > > > Think that I might be able to give part a: a go, well will try it anyway. > > > > > > > > I was wondering is there a simple way to install gentoo without having > > > > internet access. > > > > This is because I do not have internet access at home and thus cannot do a > > > > emerge sync. > > > > > > I you have a friend which has Gentoo installed, he/she could burn you > > > /usr/portage on a CD (there is the portage tree and the distfiles (if he > > > hadn't deleted them) in it). > > Unfortunately I know noone that is running gentoo, as we are all debian people > > here as there is a mirror on campus. > > Is there a place that I can download the portage tree from? > > > > I will try to get someone with a spare machine to install gentoo on a partition so > > that I can make a copy though. > > > > -- > > Dave Chandraratnam > > > > Being an executioner is really the only way to get a head in this life > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > > > -- > Louis C. Candell -- Dave Chandraratnam Being an executioner is really the only way to get a head in this life -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
