My last Gentoo Linux install (rc2) took me less than 45 minutes. I went with a stage-3 tarball, emerge sync and scp'ed a working kernel from another gentoo box which had everything I needed for my new box built into the kernel instead of modules. emerge cron & system loggers and raid tools lvm user xfsprogs and addpatches. Super basic linux system with nothing on it other than what is needed to have a running working Gentoo System.
I'm assuming all you need is a jdk for your java development, so just reboot and emerge JDKOFCHOICE which should get you off and running. It shouldnt take you more than 90 minutes to have a running and working Gentoo Linux http server with needed mods if you do it as mentioned above (by using appropriate USE '-' flags for your initial emerge PACKAGE builds). And it shouldnt take you more than 45 minutes to have a running gentoo linux box if you use stage3 and the GRP packages included on the LiveCD. The install was on an E-Machines (Celeron) 466i :)... the best $50 I ever spent! Louis C. Candell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
