Trey Sizemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
I always install from stage1 and I never wait for it to compile. Consider building everything you need from which ever stage in a chroot'ed environment on your existing GNU/Linux distribution. This way you can still be productive while your build proceeds. When its done, tar it up and reboot to install it. Down-time for me each time I do this about 20 minutes (the time to reboot and unpack it). Matt -- Matthew Kennedy Gentoo Linux Developer Bugs go to http://bugs.gentoo.org! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
