Re: [gentoo-dev] installing using ppp connection.

Re: [gentoo-dev] installing using ppp connection.

[James Gibson]

On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, William McArthur wrote:
> Gentoo isn't modem friendly. On my newest gentoo workstation which is 
> about a week old I've already downloaded over 500megs of source 
> packages. While it is possible to download this over a modem it won't be 
> fun.

You just lack the patience to put up with the dial-up. I've been running
Gentoo since well before the 1.0 stage and have been keeping it up to
date, all on a 56k dial-up, including 3 new versions of XFree. For those
of us that don't need an instant gratification fix it works quite well.
And guess what: I've probablly pulled down 500MB this week also.

That being said I find it baffling why a pppd setup is NOT on the install 
medium. The bandwidth hogs like yourself would hardly notice; what's 
another meg on the download to you?! and it would allow the people who 
want to, to do an install that way.

James Gibson

[gentoo-dev] installing using ppp connection.

[Waheed Islam]

hi,

I don't believe your distro is setup to handle installations by a ppp 
connection.
I have stage1. I setup all the partitions correctly etc.
When coming up to emerge sync, it obviously requires a inet connection. 
Your installation manual only describes install by network. But i have 
no network, like i believe a lot of other people wouldn't.

So, what's the solution here? Besides starting from stage2/3!

Thanks in advance,
-- 
Waheed Islam
w.islam@herts.ac.uk
wislam@wislam.co.uk

Re: [gentoo-dev] installing using ppp connection.

[William McArthur]

Gentoo isn't modem friendly. On my newest gentoo workstation which is 
about a week old I've already downloaded over 500megs of source 
packages. While it is possible to download this over a modem it won't be 
fun.

Do you have a friend with a DSL/Cable Modem connection? If not, is there 
a local LUG you can join? Someone there will definatly have access to a 
fast connection.

If you want a server type box, no xfree/kde/gui just the console, then 
you can probably get away with starting at stage 3. I'd guess the 
required downloads for that setup would be near 100megs.

Gentoo isn't everything to everyone. Know your needs and available 
resources and reconsider if Gentoo is right for you.

Sandy McArthur

Re: [gentoo-dev] installing using ppp connection.

[eric]

i use a small script to do a emerge -f --update world at night and it brings 
the download wait to 0. ppp and gentoo get along just as nicely as any other 
distro.
:)

eric-



On Friday 26 April 2002 10:24 pm, James Gibson wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, William McArthur wrote:
> > Gentoo isn't modem friendly. On my newest gentoo workstation which is
> > about a week old I've already downloaded over 500megs of source
> > packages. While it is possible to download this over a modem it won't be
> > fun.
>
> You just lack the patience to put up with the dial-up. I've been running
> Gentoo since well before the 1.0 stage and have been keeping it up to
> date, all on a 56k dial-up, including 3 new versions of XFree. For those
> of us that don't need an instant gratification fix it works quite well.
> And guess what: I've probablly pulled down 500MB this week also.
>
> That being said I find it baffling why a pppd setup is NOT on the install
> medium. The bandwidth hogs like yourself would hardly notice; what's
> another meg on the download to you?! and it would allow the people who
> want to, to do an install that way.
>
> James Gibson
>
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