Gentoo question

[Stephen Bunn]

On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 00:35 +0200, Loïc Martin wrote:
> Hi,
> I know that's not really ubuntu related, but we often have questions 
> about Windows here, and if we can talk about that, I might be allowed a 
> Gentoo question :)
> 
> Sincerely, I know some on the list use both Ubuntu and Gentoo, and since 
> I won't have Internet access starting from tomorrow evening (or Thursday 
> evening if my provider is nice :) ) I'm quite in a hurry.
> 
> I'd like to know if it's possible to download all the stuff necessary 
> for a Gentoo installation (DVD might be the best) so I could have 
> something to play with during my holiday... I'm looking for an X system 
> with xfce/wmaker/open office/scim/inkscape/amarok/blender and maybe (if 
> it's faster than on Ubuntu) gnome or kde.
> 
> Where should I look for it?
Its possible.  Simply find one of the Gentoo mirror's and run a
recursive wget and hope it completes before they boot you or your ISP
shuts you down... then simply setup your make.conf to pull everything
locally.

http://www.gentoo-wiki.com has several HOWTO's releated to this.