2. get a wifi card and see if your neighbors have high speed. ;) LOL While I understand that you want to go with the Stage 1 install...maybe the Stage 3 install might be more realistic (unless you can get access to a hit speed connection).
Shawn On 4/13/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John J. Foster wrote: > > >All help and guidance appreciated, > > > > > > Well, my original Gentoo installation was done with a dialup connection > (not at home, mind you!), and my advice is... > How about make friends with someone who has high-speed at home, and then > you can drink beer and install Gentoo at the same time? :-) > > It took about a week before I had enough packages downloaded and > installed to make the system usable. > > The real problem is knowing which "distfiles" (source packages) you > need. The current distfiles directory on the mirrors is ~49GB...even > with my cable modem at home and bittorrent I wouldn't want to tackle > that! Besides you don't need all 49GB, the total 'current' distfiles is > more like 2-2.5GB...the rest is old or unstable. > > You can use the --pretend --fetchonly options with emerge to know what > files you need for what you are doing currently...but this is pretty > tedious and error prone. Plus, it only tells you about the packages and > dependancies you need for right now...not for the next thing you are > going to install (like Gnome/KDE, Evolution/Mozilla, etc). So your life > for the next week will be: get a list of source packages you need at > home, download those at work, then find the next set of packages you > want/need. > > So, I have 3 suggestions for you: > > 1. see above. > > 2. get a wifi card and see if your neighbors have high speed. > > 3. if you can give us an idea of what kind of software and configuration > you are looking to setup (Gnome vs KDE, etc), someone on this list with > a similar configuration might be kind enough to send you a listing of > their distfiles directory, so you would have a good idea of what > packages and versions you need to download. > > -Richard > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
