RE: [gentoo-user] Installing software without an internet connection

2008-11-04 Thread Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan Neomal
Hi, Thnks for the tip I shall try this and let y'll know the results ... I used to run an offline gentoo setup. You can use "emerge -upvf " to get a list of files you need to obtain. Pipe the output of that to some file, do some grep/sed

[gentoo-user] Does portage keep a copy of the file which it installs in the system

2008-11-04 Thread Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan Neomal
Hi, Does portage keep a copy of the file which it installs in the system? Because after the intial installation the gentoo system only contains few packages and it takes up about 2.5 GB ... Where other distro's like slackware would take up 2.5 GB for every thing with out KDE or Gnome . Whe

RE: [gentoo-user] Installing software without an internet connection

2008-11-04 Thread Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan Neomal
8 11:54 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Installing software without an internet connection On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 5:01 AM, Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan Neomal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I was able to complete the Gentoo installation and boot into my sy

[gentoo-user] Installing software without an internet connection

2008-11-04 Thread Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan Neomal
Hi I was able to complete the Gentoo installation and boot into my system successfully. I only downloaded the Live CD, But the live CD only contains a limited number of packages and... I do not have an internet connection at home since its very expensive for us. Is their any possible way th

RE: [gentoo-user] Cant boot my installed gentoo system - Please help

2008-11-03 Thread Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan Neomal
sday, November 04, 2008 12:05 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cant boot my installed gentoo system - Please help On Dienstag 04 November 2008, Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan Neomal wrote: > Hi > I am new to Gentoo. My previous experience is with slackware . I > Downloaded th

[gentoo-user] Cant boot my installed gentoo system - Please help

2008-11-03 Thread Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan Neomal
Hi I am new to Gentoo. My previous experience is with slackware . I Downloaded the Live CD and installed Gentoo twice .. but the problem is Grub is not installed. I have a dual boot with Widowz and Grub for dos ... So I tried it using the grub console >root (hd0,4) >kernel (hd0,4)/ --> and when

RE: [gentoo-user] openoffice 3 broken?

2008-11-03 Thread Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan Neomal
Hi I have am new to Gentoo. My previous experience is with slackware . I Downloaded the Live CD and installed Gentoo twice .. but the problem is Grub is not installed. I have a dual boot with Widowz and Grub for dos ... So I tried it using the grub console >root (hd0,4) >kernel (hd0,4)/ --> and w