On Sunday, February 26, 2012 09:50 Alan McKinnon wrote: > <snip>
> Assuming you have a handy Linux LiveCD (any distro) it's better to > download the stage3 as these are built daily and of all the available > methods, it's the most recent. But beware that you will still need to > download almost all the source code all over again with the first > update, and this is somewhere around 2G if you use KDE or Gnome. > Aha! So the stage 3 tarball's I'm seeing at http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/x86/autobuilds/current-stage3/ won't be the same as what the 12.0 DVD will have, correct? The stage tarballs are just the barest minimum stuff, with only a few window managers and no DE's, correct? So, what I basically was right about at first, the only *real* problem I'll have with trying to run a Gentoo system is my dial-up (presuming I can get along just fine with command line stuff and whatever). Still...if I absolutely *must* do an update of some kind of huge MB download thing, can I not just go to the gentoo sources webpage, download whatever it was I needed (being on someone's fast pipe of course), put that on a CD or DVD, take it back home and have the update app install it from said CD or DVD? If this is possible, then I just might have this thing licked! -- There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else. -Theodore Roosevelt, 1915
