On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 15:02, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > 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
I know of the stage 1-3 tarballs that can be used, but what is GRP? This sounds faster, but I'm not sure what it is. Thanks. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
