On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 11:00, you wrote: > > ...OK, First things first:- > > > > How many people on the list would be seriously interested in this? > > The number interested will define the location of the venue. > > Note that you _must_ have a linux compatible network card installed in > > your > > > machine for this idea to even totter into the realm of possiblity. We > > will also need a hub / switch with sufficient ports > for each > machine... > > The key issue as I see it is that the compiling stage takes such a very > long time on anything but real fireburning gear. From what I've read, > I'm expecting it to take my notebook to be hammering away for several > days to get an X environment up and going, but I imagine it's going to > take *quite* a long time to get even a minimal CLI setup going - and > thats assuming no h'ware problems.
> So, the question is, what can be reasonably expected from a <8hr > session? I'd expect that everybody could go home with a working system created from the stage3.tar.bz2 archive file. They would then go home with whatever sources they want to compile up later. emerge allows one to just d/l a source archive file and not compile it. Remember that altough Gentoo is a "source distribution", you don't _have_ to build absolutely everything from scratch. LFS is the one to use if you want to do that. Those folk seriously interested should do just a tiny bit of the rtfm act:- http://www.gentoo.org/ http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml and for x86 machines: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml -- C. S.
