From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HIrdO-0001al-8Z for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:23:42 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l1IJMXgt013627; Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:22:33 GMT Received: from mirus.exceedtech.net (ns0.exceedtech.net [70.151.169.5]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l1IJHt0H008076 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:17:56 GMT Received: from [65.144.11.87] (0-1pool11-87.nas2.greenwood1.ms.us.da.qwest.net [65.144.11.87]) by mirus.exceedtech.net (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id l1IJHqv0013077 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2007 13:17:53 -0600 Message-ID: <45D8A660.1050502@exceedtech.net> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 13:17:52 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20070105 SeaMonkey/1.0.7 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is it possible to download packages from Windows XP? References: <000a01c75314$a0f1c900$0700a8c0@NX6120> <45D7DC0B.4000708@exceedtech.net> <001601c7531c$ce19de60$0700a8c0@NX6120> <45D7EB38.20606@exceedtech.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 43cff1dd-22e1-4e7b-861b-a1be045fe4dd X-Archives-Hash: 84a698d3931c0bffef9414f40da62e2c Drew wrote: >> One way to get a known mirror is to do this command: emerge -fp >> > name> It will give you a list of mirrors that should have the file >> and the >> address for it too. > > That assumes he has the information about the mirror/package stored > locally. I think he's asking because his wireless card doesn't work > under gentoo but does under XP, so non-local data is impossible to > snag. ;-) > > > -Drew I'm not a windoze user but I would run the command in Gentoo, write down the address, boot into windoze and poke it in < I hate this part> IE and download it. Then copy it over, ever how he plans to do that too. :/ Of course, if he can't or doesn't want to do it that way, I gave him another option, just in case. ;-) Dale :-) :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/dalek1967 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list