Re: [orca-list] install GRML with gnome or arch without internet connection

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Hello,
The first thing which came to mind when I read this was, for GRML, do it 
a similar way to the suggestions for Krishnakant on getting the build 
dependencies for orca without an internet connection. However, I think 
these may require a Linux system to prepare the local mirror so you 
would be left with the option of either downloading all the .deb files 
and installing each one with dpkg (would require you to get the correct 
order to satisfy dependencies) or if debian still has a full CD set, use 
that for your source. OK, just checked, they do have a full CD set 
according to http://www.debian.org/distrib/, your options would be 
either download the larger images or buy a set (they say they typically 
are very cheap).

So that's GRML (NOTE: for things like gnome they use Debian's 
repositories so you shouldn't have an issue, just go for either testing 
or unstable, ideally unstable but I didn't look hard enough to know 
whether there are unstable snapshots as CD images). Considering my note, 
you may want to look at installing plain debian (GRML can do that, just 
remembered that you will need CD as source and so you might need to 
remove the GRML CD from the drive, therefore use the cheat code to copy 
the GRML image to ram).

Looking at the above, that seems harder than I expected, so many things 
to consider. Hopefully Arch might be easier.

I think if you were to mirror arch repositories precisely on a hard 
disk, all you would need to do is download all the packages and the 
repository database files and have them in suitable directories and 
update the pacman configuration. You would only need do the directories 
for your architecture. Also if you mirrored their directory structure 
you probably would only need edit the mirror list. Also you won't need 
all repositories, you probably don't want testing and community-testing, 
so you could leave out those directories.

Sorry I probably haven't explained that particularly well, hope you can 
get some ideas of what to do. Also may be consider asking in the Arch 
forums about how to install without an internet connection, sure it must 
be something which comes up and there may be a better way than I am 
suggestions (I am actually not even sure whether what I suggest will 
work, I am just piecing together what I know of how an arch repository 
works).

Michael Whapples
On 01/-10/-28163 08:59 PM, Justin Pospical wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if there was any way you could download gnome so that
> you could install it on GRML or arch linux without an internet
> connection. I'd have to do it from windows because Linux doesn't
> recognise my wireless card. Any help would be appriciated.
>
>