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Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Installing software without an internet connection
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 12:48:17 +0530
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I Used the Live CD ... It does contain few packages like X11,xfce4, gdm
, some network utils,vim . But I need to get other packages which I
need. lIke Gcj , fluxbox , mpg321 ...
Even though it has only few packages installed it consumes a lot of disk
space... that another problem im having.=20
Thanks & Regards,
=20
Gayan Lorenzu Hewa | Sub Officer | Wholesale Banking Corporate Service
Center | Standard Chartered Bank=20
(: 0115-397335): 0773-652003 6: 0115-397337 *:
GayanNeomal.LorenzuHewa@standardchartered.com=20
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dirk Uys [mailto:dirkcuys@gmail.com]=20
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 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
<GayanNeomal.LorenzuHewa@standardchartered.com> wrote:
> 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 that i can get a Software collection
downloaded
> for my Gentoo box . I have a P3 with 256 RAM when xfce is combined
with
> Gnome my PC runs slow. I am not much of a xfce/Gnome /KDE fan but
since I
> have no way of getting packages in to my PC I am facing difficulties.
>
> Also my gentoo root partition (/) is only 5GB But it has already
consumed
> almost 50% of the partition space. Is their a possible way of getting
more
> spacxe freed in the PC .
>
> Thanks & Regards,
>
> Gayan Lorenzu Hewa | Sub Officer | Wholesale Banking Corporate Service
> Center | Standard Chartered Bank
>
> (: 0115-397335): 0773-652003 6: 0115-397337 *:
> GayanNeomal.LorenzuHewa@standardchartered.com
Did you get the minimal live CD? If possible, try to get the live cd
that at least contains a stage3 tarbal, a portage snapshot, and some
precompiled packages.
As a side note: for a PC running on low specs I would recommend using
a window manager like WindowMaker or IceWM. Both of them are very
lightweight.
Regards
Dirk
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