installing gentoo from cd?

deech · Guest

Since i don't have a very fast internet connection, but i've got friends that do :lol:

, i wondered if it's possible to download all sources to a CD and install Gentoo from that CD?
I like the idea of compiling the sources on my own PC, but not if i've got to download them during install

Any tips, hints , did i miss some documentation that describes how to do this?

Thanx in advance,

deech

bart · n00b Joined: 13 Apr 2002 Posts: 60

Yes, that's possible. Put your elsewhere downloaded packages into /usr/portage/distfiles.

fghellar · Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2002 4:56 pm Post subject:

You can also just mount your CD somewhere and set the variable DISTDIR to point to it.

deech · Guest

Step 1.
Download iso's from http://www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/releases/build/1.1a/
Download sources from progs.
Q: do i need to d/l the files from distfiles/ or from gentoo-sources/ ?

Step 2.
Install gentoo with the iso's using the install manual from the site

Step 3.
install other programs (i.e. KDE3, Kopete, Gnucash) using a cd with all the sources. Emerge will use the files on cd instead of downloading them.

Did i miss anything?

thanx,
dj

fghellar

deech · Guest

A few minor questions just to see if i've got this thing right...
Q1:
After installing gentoo from iso i want to install differtent apps like kde.
All the files i need are on a cd (downloaded from /gentoo/distfiles), so i don't need to download anything new, right?

Q2:
Portage tree = ebuilds needed to install software = /usr/portage/... ?

Q3:
Portage user manual says before installing software to update the portage tree. Is there a way to do this without having to establish an internet connection?

thanx again.....if this portage thing works like it says it does, then it's REALLY cool!

dj

gschneider

chadh

Deech · Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2002 9:46 am Post subject: thanx, will try so!

Thanx for the tip....i haven't had the time to try gentoo yet, but i've got the cd's now, with all sources the sources from distfiles (just 6 cd's :wink:

) so i will start any day now....
I'll keep you guys posted on how i'm doing :lol:

greetz,
deech

salimma · n00b Joined: 29 Apr 2002 Posts: 25 Location: York, UK

Hi Deech,

I'm planning on doing something very similar (only that the 'friends' are my CS department at university), and was wondering about one thing:

How did you get the list of source files that you need to download? Since you said it took 6 CDs, I'd assume you did not actually manually go through each .emerge file and decipher what sources it uses.

I've been trying to find an answer to this for a few days with nothing to show for it so far. emerge does not seem (from the docs) to have an option to just 'dump source file list without any fancy header'.

Would be real interested in knowing how you did it (get the 6 CDs). And good luck with your install

Regards,
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salimma · n00b Joined: 29 Apr 2002 Posts: 25 Location: York, UK

chadh · Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 11:12 pm Post subject:

If it took 6 CD's I would assume that was the entire contents of the distfiles directory on ibiblio. That is a lot more than you need. For instance, my entire /usr/portage/distfiles (with some duplicate tarballs) is just over 1GB.

As far as figuring out exactly which ones you need, that is a hard question to answer. If you want to get exactly the tarballs you want and not have to worry about downloading at all, then you need to take a snapshot of portage and get the corresponding tarballs. If you look around in the forums and mailing lists for installing without a network connection or installing with a modem, you will find lots of good hints.
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Deech · Posted: Wed May 01, 2002 8:55 am Post subject:

klieber · Posted: Wed May 01, 2002 5:34 pm Post subject:

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