Surely you'd like to see how much quicker you can do it on your new machine eh? Don't forget 'distcc' for splitting up the workload. It'll really help on the larger packages like Xfree86 and KDE.
Mr O. --- Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BAGGAB wrote: > > > Can you elaborate on this. Can this be installed from a CD? > > I just finished this morning building a fairly full-featured > Gentoo > system*. I started it on May 4th, right after Jack and > Vladimir's > Gentoo talk, so call it four weeks. My CPU is a Celeron 466 > MHz w/ > 512 Mb of RAM and 5200 RPM disk drive. I had to do it three > times > before I got it right: the first one took a week or so, the > second one > only went for a couple of days before I realized I should > start over > again, and the last one was delayed by my travelling. If I > had been > there all the time, and if I had not made one crucial mistake, > it > would have been less than two weeks. That little KDE problem > that I > asked the group for help on a few days ago stopped progress > for a > couple of days too. > > So if you want to build Gentoo, either get a real fast box or > plan to > wait a while. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
