Installing Gentoo WAS: RE: [Sussex] Hello from an new list member - abit about me

[Tony Austin]

Gareth

>
> Ok so some of the luck wishing might of paid of but I got back about 8
> last night so didn't get very far as you can imagine.
> What I have is the CD issue of Linux format that has the stage1 install
> plus a load of packages, so I started going through the install
> documents and got to the download portage, no this isn't a nice thing on
> 56k with 2 hr cut off. So the aim for today while at work is get the
> files for portage and burn them on a cd. (Any ideas where??).

What you really need to do a connection-free install is the 2 CD set for
one of the GRPs.

These 2 mirrors usually are pretty quick:-

ftp://gentoo.linux.no/pub/gentoo
ftp://ftp.rhnet.is/pub/gentoo

If you get to, for example,
ftp://ftp.rhnet.is./pub/gentoo/releases/x86/1.4/livecd, you will have to
chose your architecture and then download whichever 2 CDs you have chosen.

>
> But so far so good tbh it's not been that hard to get where I have.
>
> Gareth Ablett
> Systems Developer
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tony Austin [mailto:tony at gigaday.com]
>> Sent: 13 October 2003 7:43 pm
>> To: LUG email list for the Sussex Counties
>> Subject: RE: [Sussex] Hello from an new list member - a bit about me
>>
>>
>> > Hey all,
>> >
>> > Wish me luck I'm putting Gentoo on for the first time tonight. Any
>> > things or comments I should know before hand.
>> >
>>
>> If your hard disk ever had Windows on it make sure that you
>>
>> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda ...
>>
>> or you will get some strange problems trying to mount /boot
>>
>> I dd the whole drive just for good luck to find any bad blocks, you
> might
>> not want to do this if you have data on it of course.
>>
>> I have also decided to mirror the disks on all my machines in future -
>> which isn't too hard after the first time or expensive.  You could
>> probably retro fit if you wanted.
>>
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> > Gareth Ablett
>> > Systems Developer
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>> Tony Austin
>> Gigaday Computing Limited
>> http://www.gigaday.com
>> tony at gigaday.com
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Regards.

Tony Austin
Gigaday Computing Limited
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tony at gigaday.com