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Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan Neomal wrote:
>  Is their any possible way that i can get a Software collection 
> downloaded for my Gentoo box . I have a P3 with 256 RAM

For this machine I don't recommend Gentoo, sorry (unless you want a 
text-only box without X).

Also, without an internet connection I would try something like Debian 
which has all its packages on the downloadable ISO images.