On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 12:57, 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? > > My idea is to download ISO's somewhere else, then install here at home. > > For now, I'll get a hold of the Universal CD and try the precompiled option.
You can actually download and burn the install-x86-minimal-2004.1.iso ISO image from any of the Gentoo mirrors and put the stage1 tarball including your portage tree in one of the following: [1] FTP/HTTP server of your home network [2] CD-ROM [3] any partition of your hard disk drive With respect with your portage tree, if you have an access to another Gentoo box (maybe from your office or friend), you can change your default path for your DISTFILES in your /etc/make.conf to any partition (e.g. /home/migs/distfiles) and when done, the next time you do a 'emerge sync' as root, the ebuilds will go directly to the new path. Once you finished sync'ing the portage tree, you can copy the entire directory and put the contents of that directory to your /usr/portage/distfiles directory. HTH. Marvin -- 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
