On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 02:44:02 +0200 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13/02/2014 02:40, Edward M wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > Been busy learning Linux :-) got new email other was getting > > crowded. I'm planing on installing Gentoo on a few systems and I > > was wondering to save bandwidth, i could install portage to the > > other Gentoo installs from my system instead downloading from > > mirrors? > > > > Thanks in advance! > > > > Yes. > > The stage are just tarballs, download them once, copy to the new > location and unpack. > Same with the portage snapshots. > Same with the distfiles. > they are just files, copy them to where they need to be and use them, > or let emerge find them. > > Read the install docs first and learn more about how Linux works on > the command line. Pretty soon you'll find the bits where the manual > says "download such-and-such from this place" and you'll spot that if > you already have the downloadable file you can just use it already. > > > Alan, I want to apologized I did not thanked you for the great advice you gave me. I noticed this this morning when I re-read my emails. Best Regards. -- Learing Linux with Gentoo to earn LPIC1.
