Re: Low bandwidth/limited time online installation?

On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 01:27, John Beimler wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 12:59, David Obwaller wrote:
> > Indeed this would be a great feature. I'm also using a slow modem
> > connection and it's just impossible for me to download XFree, Gnome, ...
> > So far I've been using sed, vi and uniq more or less successful to get
> > the url out of the emerge output.
> > 
> 
> I use emerge -f to download packages on the quick connection and then
> compile them afterwards.  I use wireless most of the time, but I can get
> the packages a lot quicker if I go on the 100BT network to download
> things.
> 
> Peace.
> 
> john
> 

The problem is that I cannot rely on a gentoo system to download files
from the internet. Most of the time I have to use some windows system
and a list of all urls would ease the process of downloading the files a
lot.

David