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 - currently dual-booting WinXP and > Libranet 2.7) at stage 1 this afternoon, that I could have a functioning > (KDE, email, browser) up and running by tomorrow sometime? If so, I'll > probably give it a try. > > Thanks.
I just upgraded to KDE 3.1.1 tonight. It took around 15 hours to compile everything on a P4 2.0GHz with 1GB Ram. When I installed Gentoo, I took a weekend for it. I used the first day just for bootstrap (not a lenghty process in itself, but I needed time to setup the partitions, configure the kernel and other stuff). Then I went stage 3 during the night. On sunday morning I had a bootable system at stage 3. I then emerged X, Gmome, Evolution, Mozilla and Emacs. If I remember well, it took about one day to complete the task. On Monday morning all I had to do was to install from CD the f90 compiler I use at work and I had an 'usable' (in n00b sense) system. After that, I emerged the rest of my system during the following days. -- Arturo di Gioia web: http://www.ing.unitn.it/~digioia/ PGP public key: http://www.ing.unitn.it/~digioia/files/adg_gpg_pub.asc Instructions for using my e-mail address: http://netiquette.info/ Please don't send me Word or PowerPoint attachments: http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
