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 precompiled binaries, you can install > an X server and KDE in minutes instead of days but it is likely that an > emerge -u world will take quite a while (24 hours perhaps) but at least > the machine will be usable durring that time. > Somebody that has installed from GRP should jump in here and correct me > if I'm wrong....
I used GRP on one instance to kickstart my gentoo install. While needing still a lot of merging the GRP made my system usable fast. This enabled me to do other things while gentoo was upgrading. For me this was invaluable. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Researcher Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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