On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 17:11:24 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Farmer) wrote:
> Here's a set of scripts I use to automatically sync/fetch/emerge all
> packages over a modem. Works great (for me at least).
Thanks Andrew. I will stash that script until later.
Thanks to all who answered my first p
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 02:14:18 +0900
Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A warning though: the initial installation (that is getting a bootable system)
> will take you about 4 days combined downloading and compiling time judging
> from your CPU. X11 and your favourite WM will then take you a
On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 10:50:49 -0600
Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm pretty sure that the LiveCD has support for ppp. Also, if you have another Linux
> distro already installed, you can connect to the internet from there, and install
> from there.
I read about using another dist
Hi,
I am very interested in using Gentoo "compile from source". However,
I only have a dialup connection to the net. Reading the docs told me
that I must install the stage 3 tarball to be able to use ppp. It also
says that using the stage 3 tarball requires a 686 processor. I am
running an AMD
