On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 04:51:45PM +0000, Dennis Soper wrote: > > There is a base system like OpenBSD. If you have a 686, you can get an > ISO image to install from. Otherwise, you compile *everything* from > source doing the install. You can also compile from scratch if you are > using a 686. Portage, the Gentoo package management system, does clean > up the object files. The tarballs stay around, but you can move/delete > them as you see fit.
OK, I will check it out. The laptop is a PII 266. How much RAM is needed for the source install? Any idea how long it takes (yeah I know, that depends, but what have you observed)? Is there any kind of built in mechanism for duplicating systems? OpenBSD has a "release" make target that builds boot images and packages the files for the base system. I kinda like that. > The install from source works like this. First, you download a 17MB ISO > image and burn a CD. You boot from the CD and partition your hard > drive. The BIOS of this machine will only let it boot from 1.44MB (emulated for CD) boot disks. Do you know offhand if that's the size of the boot image? > Then, it goes out > and downloads and compiles the latest libraries and compilers and > installs them in RAM. I have a pretty good sized archive of free software source packages on local NFS exports. Could I use that somehow? > Finally, it recompiles the newest compilers and > libraries and installs them on the hard drive. Now, it starts > downloading, building, and installing your basic system. After this is > done, you have to do your normal configuration file editing and > download, build, and install your kernel. Then you reboot and install > whatever. You do use 'emerge' to do the installation. Looks like I have some good ol' RTFM ahead of me :) Is there any particularly important info on www.gentoo.org I should read first? -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
