On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 12:57:24PM +0800, Miguel A Paraz wrote: > Hi, Gentoo newbie here :) > > I'm reading through the installation guide: > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=2 > > To clarify - without a broadband connection, is it not possible to > compile from source? The packages are binaries, and there are no > source tarballs on CD, right? >
No, definitely not true. I have a Gentoo installation at home, with only a dialup connection, which I managed to install with a two-stage process. I created another couple of ISO's with a Portage tree snapshot and the packages I wanted. I had to copy the contents of the CD's to a spare partition before doing the install, copy the portage snapshot to /usr/portage, along with all of the package tarballs I pre-downloaded. The rest of my updates I had to do over a slow dialup link, but no matter, I have patience. :) Yeah, it's cumbersome, I know, but it is doable. -- dido Sans les mathematiques on ne penetre point au fond de la philosophie. Sans la philosophie on ne penetre point au fond des mathematiques. Sans les deux on ne penetre au fond de rien. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
