Offline Installation?

Drushka · Guest

Hi all,

I have a pretty fast Internet connection at uni but none yet at home. Even if I did it would be painfully slow. (Why would I want to shell out on a fast connection if I have a free one at work?)

Anyway, I would obviously like to download all the packets and burn them all on severall CDs to install gentoo linux offline at home.
The way I read the installation-howto, this is not the recommended way, however. Any way to get around the recommended way to avoid downloading all the packets from home?

Thanks in advance,
Drushka

Drushka · Guest

Just found this thread. Doesn't look too straightforward. What if I use a different linux at work (I do)? What if I was a windoze junkey (I'm not)?

I'd have loved to just download a bunch of isos containing all the things I don't need but then I guess this is not the way things are intended. Don't want to waste your bandwidth to badly as well.

Ah well, I'll have another look at it when I have more time.

Regards,
Drushka :wink:

water · Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2002 1:48 pm Post subject:

You could emerge te portage-tree at home. With emerge -p you can see wich packages are needed. Then you download somewhere else the packages you need, burn them on a cd and copy them at home to /etc/portage/distfiles. Then emerge the package you want, and it will take the sources you copied into /etc/portage/disfiles.

There's only one problem: emerge -p doesn't show all dependencies somehow. I don't know houw to solve this problem

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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

I have read somewhere that 'wget' is available to MS Windows as well. So, an emerge -p would give you dependancies needed. Then, manually use wget to download what you want. I've never done it, so I'm just guessing.
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ejdmoo · n00b Joined: 17 Jun 2002 Posts: 32 Location: USA

Here's what I did. My laptop comes to work with me, but at home serves as a network bridge to my linux box (long story). I was wondering how to rebuild KDE3.0.3. Then I realized that I could just do emerge -uf kde. That dowloaded the sources and stuck them in /usr/portage/distfiles, and it finished in an hour or so, then I just did emerge -u kde then let it run all day while I was (and still am) at work, while my Gentoo box has no net connection.
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