Re: [Re: [gentoo-dev] Please help with RC_6 install...]

Re: [Re: [gentoo-dev] Please help with RC_6 install...]

[Viktor Lakics]

Thanks, but unfortunately I could only go to a windows NT machine at work,
where emerge won't work...:-(

Viktor
Nathaniel Grady <nate@nutopia.org> wrote:
> Are you aware of emerge --fetchonly? My solution to the 56k problem has been
to march over to somewhere there's a faster line and do an emerge --fetchonly
packagename to grab all the source, then go back home and let it build for
ever and ever...
> 
> --Nate Grady
> 
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 11:26:02AM +0100, Viktor Lakics wrote:
> > Dear Gentooers,
> > 
> > I am about to of install RC6-r9 from a tbz2 build. I am doing it over a
56k
> > dialup (please do not laugh).
> > 
> > What I try to do is to download the needed sources at work, then put
these
> > files to /usr/portage/distfiles after I chroot to the build. Emerge rsync
is
> > reasonable even over a dialup). I know the files for bootstrap from the
> > install-docs (gettext, glibc, binutils, gcc).
> > 
> > My question is: How can I get the list of source files I need for doing
an
> > 
> > emerge system (apart from doing an emerge --pretend system, because to do
this
> > I have to be in the middle of the install for 2-3 days, given that I can
only
> > use free dialup at night).
> > 
> > Just a vage list of files or a pointer to them would be very helpful for
me to
> > use to set up the base system...
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks : VIktor
> > 
> > 
> > ----Viktor Lakics----
> > 
> > Through the Internet:
> > 
> >   lakicsv@usa.net
> > 
> > 
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RE: [Re: [gentoo-dev] Please help with RC_6 install...]

[Sean Mitchell]

> Thanks, but unfortunately I could only go to a windows NT 
> machine at work,
> where emerge won't work...:-(

How about downloading all the big files on your NT machine and then copying
them to your /usr/portage/distfiles directory? Even if you just get the
biggest file this might save you a lot of time.

Sean