To add, dont delete the /usr/portage/distfiles directory afterwards thinking that you have finished with the source code. You may find yourself re-downloading it all again! Modems require a little bit of extra thought (saying someone who now has had broadband for 2 weeks! - and was on a modem since 1994 - then a superfast 2.4k/s)
1. updates are often in the form of a patch, needing the original source 2. you may want to do a major configuration change and want to recompile the system 3. on your next system, just copy the distfiles over at the right point and you have all the files on the system ready to go. I use a single source distfiles originally downloaded via modem and just copy it to every new system (thats not nfs mounted to it) With a modem, its often easier to get the files before hand: check out the -f flag to emerge. Download very large files (e.g., openoffice) manually via rsync to save BW and the occaisional corrupted file when it inevitably disconnects in the middle and place them in distfiles when ready. In some cases I have burnt a file to CD at work when I installed there, and copied it over to my home distfile dir. and yes, a K6 is a i586. Did one as a 686 by mistake, and wasted a few hours getting it to the stage it would run some of its own code, only to have it refuse to do anything! BillK On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 02:27, Larry W.Irwin Sr. wrote: > On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 02:14:18 +0900 > Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A warning though: the initial installation (that is getting a bootable system) > > will take you about 4 days combined downloading and compiling time judging > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
