On Sunday, February 26, 2012 11:44 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 11:10:50 -0600 > > John <irgu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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? > > Yes, that's pretty much it. It's not a problem having only the basics > in the tarball as with the first major update you will download all the > source code for the bits you don't have yet. And those are the same > bits that will probably be updated anyway. > > > 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's some tricks you can use. Portage can display the URLs of code > it will want to download, so you can take that list and feed > it into a downloader. Like so: > > emerge -pvuNDf world
Okay, great. Thanks to everyone who's been trying to help me out here. Now to work on finding someone with a fast connection and see what kind of damage I can do!
