David Chandraratnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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
For sure :)
I have a old 1995 Maxtor 1.2GB drive I use to transfer and carry
tarballs from computer to computer (geek!) and a copy of
cp -R /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage /mnt/oldmaxtordrive/usr/portage
The above should include all the packages you just downloaded with
the instructions in the other post. It shouldnt take more than
300-900 MB's depending on how much you want to DL...
Im suggesting this to you because in case of a *mishap* ;) and a
restart of the install, you dont end up losing everything if you are
one of those people that run everything from / with just three
partitions.
If you dont have an extra HD laying around, then go ahead and create
seperate partitions for / /tmp /var /opt /usr /usr/local /home and
(assuming /home is going to be your largest partition) make a copy of
/usr/portage in /home like so:
cp -R /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage /mnt/gentoo/home/portage
This is just a backup of what you downloaded in case of some sort of
problem or human error. Either way, you still have a backup of your
information up above in /home... just make sure to not reformat /home
or change the partition. I've never used more than 4GB's for /usr
so... If you have room... go ahead and
tar -cvjpf /mnt/gentoo/home/portage.tbz2 /mnt/gentoo/home/portage/*
and burn to CD-R... that way you always have a place to start with
Gentoo ( the live CD) and the packages on another disk.
Anyways, Im glad I could be of help...
>
>
> 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
>
>
--
Louis C. Candell
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
