> 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 >
I think you mean DISTDIR. but DISTDIR(/usr/portage/distfiles) does not contain any ebuilds only source tarballs. after `emerge sync` ebuilds go to PORTDIR(/usr/portage) -- 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
