On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 14:59 -0400, John J. Foster wrote: > Good afternoon, > > I feel that it is time to move to Gentoo. After a few years of RH, > Fedora and Suse, I want better and more precise control over my system. > My problem, maybe, is that I only have a 28.8 modem connection to the > net. But, I want to start installation from stage1 in order to be able > to build _everything_ from scratch. At work I have access to a high > speed connection and could easily download sources from there.
Well, when doing a normal emerge, you can use the options --pretend --fetchonly to get a list of which source packages are needed. Looking at bootstrap.sh, I'm fairly sure the same will work at bootstrap: just run scripts/bootstrap.sh --pretend --fetchonly then download the sources at work, and copy them to /usr/portage/distfiles. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
