Dear All,
I'm new to Gentoo - so new that I haven't installed it yet. My big hangup is that I don't have broadband, and there is no hope of getting it where I live. One friend of mine (who does have broadband) has offered to download the whole lot of Gentoo emerge files and burn these onto CD.
So my question: Is this a feasible approach? Both my friend and I are not familiar with Gentoo, we don't know if putting the emerge files onto CD solves the problem. We both think it will work, but if anybody thinks this approach is boneheaded, I'd like to hear from you. I'd love to hear any suggestions on putting Gentoo onto CD in such a way that it can be installed without any need to go online, as most other Linux distros are installed this way.
best regards, Robert
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Have you read http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=67462&highlight=install+network ?
You could boot the liveCD, create and mount partitions, emerge sync, insert the cd with the downloaded packages and copy those to /usr/portage/distfile where emerge will find them.
Or do as proposed in the link above.
Or just create link to all downloaded files on the cdrom in /usr/portage/distfiles.
If you have only one cdrom, you might have to boot with the option "cdcache" (see the installation instructions).
Good luck -)
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