Re: [gentoo-user] Realistic Install timeframe

2003-03-22 Thread Mitch
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 10:26:28 -0500 Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was thinking of installing Gentoo on my maching starting this afternoon. My machine in a PII400 with 512M RAM, ATI All-inWonder 128 video, CD-RW, 48X CD, Iiyama 450. Would it be realistic if I started install (my

RE: [gentoo-user] Realistic Install timeframe

2003-03-21 Thread Gwendolyn van der Linden
I was thinking of installing Gentoo on my maching starting this afternoon. My machine in a PII400 with 512M RAM, ATI All-inWonder 128 video, CD-RW, 48X CD, Iiyama 450. Would it be realistic if I started install (my first Gentoo install - currently dual-booting WinXP and Libranet 2.7) at

Re: [gentoo-user] Realistic Install timeframe

2003-03-21 Thread Arturo di Gioia
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 16:26, Trey Sizemore wrote: I was thinking of installing Gentoo on my maching starting this afternoon. My machine in a PII400 with 512M RAM, ATI All-inWonder 128 video, CD-RW, 48X CD, Iiyama 450. Would it be realistic if I started install (my first Gentoo install -

Re: [gentoo-user] Realistic Install timeframe

2003-03-21 Thread douggorley
I was thinking of installing Gentoo on my maching starting this afternoon. My machine in a PII400 with 512M RAM, ATI All-inWonder 128 video, CD-RW, 48X CD, Iiyama 450. Would it be realistic if I started install (my first Gentoo install - currently dual-booting WinXP and Libranet

Re: [gentoo-user] Realistic Install timeframe

2003-03-21 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 10:26, Trey Sizemore wrote: I was thinking of installing Gentoo on my maching starting this afternoon. My machine in a PII400 with 512M RAM, ATI All-inWonder 128 video, CD-RW, 48X CD, Iiyama 450. Would it be realistic if I started install (my first Gentoo install -

Re: [gentoo-user] Realistic Install timeframe

2003-03-21 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Friday 21 March 2003 10:26 am, Trey Sizemore wrote: I was thinking of installing Gentoo on my maching starting this afternoon. My machine in a PII400 with 512M RAM, ATI All-inWonder 128 video, CD-RW, 48X CD, Iiyama 450. Would it be realistic if I started install (my first Gentoo install -

RE: [gentoo-user] Realistic Install timeframe

2003-03-21 Thread Graham, Steve
kernel and the others just give you a kernel compiled the way they want, or is there more to it than that? -Original Message- From: Ernie Schroder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 11:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Realistic Install timeframe

RE: [gentoo-user] Realistic Install timeframe

2003-03-21 Thread Aaron Matteson
, or is there more to it than that? -Original Message- From: Ernie Schroder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 11:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Realistic Install timeframe On Friday 21 March 2003 10:26 am, Trey Sizemore wrote: I was thinking

Re: [gentoo-user] Realistic Install timeframe

2003-03-21 Thread Cal Evans
Trey Sizemore wrote: I was thinking of installing Gentoo on my maching starting this afternoon. My machine in a PII400 with 512M RAM, ATI All-inWonder 128 video, CD-RW, 48X CD, Iiyama 450. Would it be realistic if I started install (my first Gentoo install - currently dual-booting WinXP and

Re: [gentoo-user] Realistic Install timeframe

2003-03-21 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Friday 21 March 2003 18:52, Ernie Schroder wrote: You COULD install from the GRP CD images. That should get you up and running in the time frame you're talking about. The disadvantage is that you will be loosing a lot of the individual optomizations that make Gentoo special. With the GRP

Re: [gentoo-user] Realistic Install timeframe

2003-03-21 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Friday 21 March 2003 21:08, Matthew Kennedy wrote: I always install from stage1 and I never wait for it to compile. Consider building everything you need from which ever stage in a chroot'ed environment on your existing GNU/Linux distribution. This way you can still be productive while

Re: [gentoo-user] Realistic Install timeframe

2003-03-21 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 15:38, Robert Claeson wrote: Kwan Lowe wrote: I've done a recent install on an AMD K6-2/500/384M with 30G 7200RPM drive. From a Stage 1 tarball to a complete KDE3.1 desktop took almost four days of continuous running (5 days wallclock). Does starting from stage 1

Re: [gentoo-user] Realistic Install timeframe

2003-03-21 Thread Paul de Vrieze
I know of the stage 1-3 tarballs that can be used, but what is GRP? This sounds faster, but I'm not sure what it is. GRP stands for Gentoo Reference Platform. It is a set of prebuild packages that optionally comes with the 1.4_rc2 liveCD. One can just use emerge -K kde to install the whole