On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 18:55:19 +0200 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13/02/2014 18:35, Edward M wrote: > > 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. > > > No problem. Come check my inbox sometime, any given mail stands a 1 > in 3 chance of being answered at all :-) > > I see earlier in the thread someone mentioned sharing the portage tree > over NFS. Now this is by far the best solution of all in terms of > outright performance; but be warned up front - there are pitfalls. > > NFS is nothing like setting up a Windows share, and there's nothing > about it that just magically works. Folks new to Linux often have > heaps of trouble with it (mostly because NFS assumes you are going to > do a whole lot of heavy lifting yourself and you have already dealt > with the tricky issue of keeping user accounts in sync, and > permission woes). So by all means use NFS, just know upfront the > learning curve is steepish, and the good folks on this list can give > tons of good advice as well as get you through the arcane basics :-) Thank you for this valuable advice. I have been doing some research using bing and google and I found some howtos,docs setting up NFS portage. hope they work. thanks again -- Learing Linux with Gentoo to earn LPIC1.
