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Upgrade Gentoo using another box

Sync your portage tree On your high bandwidth machine, download a recent snapshot here: ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/snapshots/ Copy it onto your bandwidth challenged Gentoo box and untar it into /usr/portage. Get the links to your distfile upgrades # emerge -uDp –fetchonly world 2> /tmp/distfiles.txt Download the files on the high bandwidth box This step depends entirely on [...]

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HOWTO update/install/upgrade a debian box with NO internet…

I specifically emphasize NO, because as I was googling for a good howto on this topic lots of them said “no internet connection” but they tell you to ‘apt-get update’ first which is dumb because you need an internet connection for that. Same thing with using apt-zip. So here it is: *** In a computer [...]

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