On Oct 17, 2003, at 8:57 pm, Bruce Kingsland wrote:
Stroller's Log: StarDate 1016.1134:
Extapolationg from the next paragraph, would 'emerge -fp ??? >> listFile'
get me a list of what is needed? Can that list be downloaded with wget?
Since your friend has a fast connection, you could `emerge -Ufp world
>> somefile.txt` on your Gentoo systems. This will give you a full path
to all the files you need to download (I think it is neatest if you
only have one mirror listed in the GENTOO_MIRRORS line of
/etc/make.conf).
I'm not really familiar with the best way to pass textfiles with lots of URLs to wget, but that's the way (I think) to grab the packages. I should have said: `emerge -Ufp world>>somefile.txt`...will give you a full *URL* to all the files you need to download.
See the attachment for an example. Note that I have many mirrors in my make.conf.
foo
Description: Binary data
I don't think I can reboot her system to the gentoo CD and still have a valid cable connection. I don't have the details on the login stuff. But if the emerge command results in file names, and a path to them, I can fix up a batch file in the winbox to use wget to get them all, and burn them to a CD for use on my home system.
Exactly.
Is there a handy boot floppy that I can use for my laptop? It doesn't have an onboard CD, but it does have an enet card in the PCMCIA slot (a Xircom 10/100/56K) that I could use to access files on my local network, and the CD in one of the desktop systems.
Laptops like this are a teensy bit of a chore with Gentoo, because there's no official floppy. Heck, I hate floppies, too. Basically, you need to find a bootable Linux floppy which will enable you to partition the drive, get networking up, download the stage file, unpack it, chroot in and finally compile the kernel & bootloader.
This is a fairly standard procedure for CD-less laptops, unless (like mine) the floppy drive is a USB one, in which case it's simply quicker to cheat by removing the hard-drive & get it booting on a desktop first. Unfortunately, there isn't a standard bootdisk; I believe Tom's boot disk is now incompatible with Gentoo, but again search the gmane archives of this list. Use something like "boot floppy laptop" as search terms; ISTR that someone recommended a Slackware boot floppy recently.
Stroller.
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