* Neil Bothwick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, 31 May 2005 07:14:49 +0100, Graham Murray wrote: > > > That is not strictly true. It is possible to do a source install > > without direct network access. What you have to do is get (on CDs or > > DVD) a portage snapshot and all the source files required and put them > > in (the chrooted) /usr/portage/distfiles/. A UK magazine (Linux > > Format) has, in the past, put sufficient (and more) source packages on > > the cover DVD to do stage1 install without having to download anything > > from the net. > > The new issue of Linux Format, out in the UK later this week, has > Gentoo 2005.0 on the DVD with over 2GB of source files. Everything you > need for a standard desktop setup on x86, amd64 or ppc.
Hmmm. I like the sound of that. If that is true of America, where I am, I will buy that to give it a try. Of course, I will have to find the dvd coverdisc, and the local bookstore carries the cd I believe. That is sometimes a bad way to go such as this month's Slackware 10.1 which turned out to have only disc 1. Not much use that if you ask me. patrick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
