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Glen Tyler wrote: | I was so impressed with Gentoo 1.4 that I decided to upgrade and bought the | 2CD set of 2004.0, but despite what it says in the install guide such as "if | you don't have a working network connection, you have to install a portage | snapshot provided by one of or liveCDs" -I did :-) | As I want to start at Stage1 I need to run the bootstrap script, but I get | to that point the install fails as emerge tries to download another version | of portage from the Gentoo Mirrors. | I've tried the Gentoo forums, but there does not seem to be much about this, | other than 'use a network connection' or 'use Stage3'. As the documentation | says that it can be done (although its not the default method) then I assume | that they know what they're saying. Is there a way I can stop emerge doing | this, or at least show it where I've put the sources?

Will it not accept the file downloaded on a differnet machine (such as at work) and stuck on a cd, then copied to /usr/portage/distfiles? That's the way i'd do it. Or take a copy of distfiles from a diff PC and mount the hdd into /usr/portage/distfiles. I have built a machine with no network connection before, by sneakernetting stuff into it (annoying bloody nvidia nforce crappy drivers nvnet <mumble> <mumble>).. and about 2 weeks after i did it, the forceware free nvnet drivers went stable... oh well.

My home netrwork all uses a samba (coda in pipeline) share of /usr/portage/distfiles off my home fileserver... so it's reasonably robust.

| Thanks again | | Glen | | | | _______________________________________________ | main@lists.alug.org.uk | http://www.alug.org.uk/ | http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main | Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above! |