On Sun, 29 May 2005, cothrige wrote: > The book mentions a networkless install, but this seems to be a binary > package installation. That is the inference I am drawing in regards > to the universal install disc and the packages disc. Am I wrong?
Yes, for a networkless install you would normally use the universal CD + packages CD. > The > day I have access to a faster connection is coming up this Wednesday > and I am hoping to clarify what I need so that I can consider trying > out a Gentoo install. So, in short, which specific iso images can I > use to achieve a reasonably complete non-binary Gentoo installation > without any internet access whatsoever? An install from source REQUIRES net access since the bootstrap script downloads and builds each package - so a binary-less install without net access is a contradiction in terms. The one thing you could try is pre-downloading all the tarballs you are likely to need for the bootstrap, kernel and various utils you need, burn them to a CD, then put them in the /usr/portage/distfiles during the install... -- Aj. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
