On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 03:20:55PM -0500, Paul de Vrieze wrote: Content-Description: signed data > On Friday 21 March 2003 21:08, Matthew Kennedy wrote: > > 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). > > > > Of course this is a viable solution. The only problem is that it doesn't work > if there is no previous linux distro, just some NTFS partition you don't even > know of what it contains.
A Knoppix CD could help. That's what I use it for. -- Tyler Trafford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
