On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 00:36 -0500, Teresa and Dale wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > >I use gentoo on small industrial-pc's, and strip out a lot of stuff that > >just takes up space, such as /usr/portage. > > Could you put /usr/portage on a dvd and just mount it there? A dvd > should hold a lot of source files. You could also use a NFS to access > the files. Just put all the souce tarballs on one machine and share > them with the rest. Just a idea.
These PC's have no removable media drives, and when they go "into the field", they don't have any other hosts around them to share with. I want to be able to dial up and install the odd package that I forgot to test properly at the office :) thanks, -- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive! -Samuel Goldwyn -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
