"emerge -fp system > file" on the system in question will list the critical files, and where to download them from. Its messy, but this can be edited into a clean list and fed to a downloader in some fashion. May make a considerable saving in download amount and time over a whole iso.
Alt is there a gentoo enthusiast in the local area who can fetch/burn the list for you, or network transfer the files? BillK On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 01:11 -0400, Colin wrote: > cothrige wrote: > > >>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... > >> > >> > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
