Gentoo sources on CD for users with dialup connections

Ed · Guest

Hi,

I have looked for answers to the following but couldn't find any references to these specific queries:

I am interested in getting into the full gentoo experience, i.e. I would like to build everything from scratch. However I only have a 56K dialup with an 8 hour cut-off so it is impractical to d/l everything in order to compile it. My strategy for bullk downloads is to go to a cyber cafe with a big pipe and burn CDs there, so d/ling the stage[1,2,3] image is easily doable, however it would be fun to do it all from source.

Are the sources available in a form suitable for generating one or more CD images? Assuming I went to the cybercafe and used ftp to get *.bz2 to burn them onto a couple of CDs, could I persuade emerge to look for the packages on CD rather than a network?

If the answer is RTFM, a pointer to TFM would be appreciated.

Ed

Infra · Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2002 10:46 am Post subject:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=6468

Is that what you are looking for? I have the same kind of problem but i have isdn connection.
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fghellar · Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2002 5:31 pm Post subject:

Or maybe this one: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=5224

(Note: the script does is not working with newer versions of portage. I'll fix it by tomorrow, hopefully...)
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therootshell · n00b Joined: 05 Jul 2002 Posts: 5

Perhaps you are looking for this:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=7609&highlight=

If you grab whatever Gentoo ISO you want and burn the distfiles to CD you should have everything you need. ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/ contains the distfiles - you can get all the files, or just the files you need (emerge --pretend is useful). Boot from the ISO, and when you get to the point of emerging things, mount the distfiles CD to /usr/portage/distfiles (or cp it from the CD to /usr/portage/distfiles, whatever your preference is). That way you can get up to the minute distfiles and not have to spend hours and hours downloading.