John J. Foster wrote:
We had a chat about that recently: http://groups.google.com.au/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&threadm=3OWtT-3nh-13%40gated-at.bofh.it&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3D%2522system%2Bwith%2Bno%2Bnetwork%2Bneeds%2Bupdates%2522%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff%26selm%3D3OWtT-3nh-13%2540gated-at.bofh.it%26rnum%3D1Good 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.
My browsing through the Gentoo 2005.0 Handbook _seems_ to say this is not possible. Is that true? If so, I would gladly buy the CD's (and help to support Gentoo) if that would work.
My last option, which I don't really want to do, is to bring my machine to work and do all from there. But I can't drink beer at the same time:-)
All help and guidance appreciated,
Thanks,
John
Building from stage1 is an interesting exercise although I wonder if the difference between a tailored stage1 install and a stage3 install would be very drastic (speed-wise, size-wise or user experience-wise). I always did it from stage1 so I don't have any experience of other installs.
Eugene.
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