Re: Gentoo emerging from disk (was Re: [Sheflug] Bootup Screen Problem)

[Netsonic <netsonic [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 23:03:44 +0000, Gary Stimson wrote:
> At 17:55 12/01/2004 +0000, you wrote:
>> On a slightly separate issue Gary, did you ever manage to get
>> 'emerge' to install the packages from disk instead of downloading
>> them all first ? Can't get that to happen for the life of me....
>>
>
> Are you trying to use the packages on the Gentoo live CDs? If so,
> copy the stuff on the second CD into the appropriate place in
> /usr/portage
>
> Thanks for the details description of your steps to solve the
> nvidia issues with kernel 2.6, I'll have a go with that later.
>
> Gary

Always happy to help if I can :)

I've got the majority of the bigger stuff compiled today - kde, gnome, openoffice etc etc.

The emerge issue is a bit of a strange one. Even if the source exists on disk, it still downloads it anyway; very odd.

I'm going to have a go at this bootsplash setup next.

Steve.

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