On 10/6/03 11:46 am, "Anton Kazennikov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I want to ask some questions. Is there any way to import some binaries > packages from other distos(Slackware for example)? If not, where I can > get the binaries packages? > I need them because I don't want to spend a lot of time for initial > installation even from stage3 tarball. You probably want to use another distro. Gentoo is *about* compiling from source. People who like Gentoo seem to have used Debian & Slackware in the past - I believe these are binary-based distributions. It's also worth nothing that the latest stage-3 install WILL give you a FULL, WORKING Linux system in only a couple of hours (let's say 4, if it's your first time). It just doesn't include a GUI at that point. My Gentoo-KDE install is, admittedly, still crunching away on a Pentium II 400 after 3 or 4 days. For those of you with today's hardware, a full GUI install should be much faster than that, but even with hardware as dated as mine, I don't really consider leaving a PC running for a week to be a "long" install - I don't need to watch over it, and besides, I only install an o/s once every year or two, so I might as well take the time to do it right. And Gentoo *does* allow your to optimise RIGHT! In the days during which KDE has been compiling on this box, I have still been able to chat & email on it, because I compiled BitchX, links & pine before I started emerging KDE. I really don't know what more you "need". If you really want to go binary Gentoo, the latest binary "group" tarballs for KDE, Gnome & (I think) one of the big office packages will be available upon 1.4 release. Architecture-optimised 1.4_rc2 group tarballs (IE: only 3.5 months old) are still available at: http://tinyurl.com/dxaj (please try to use mirrors) EG: the Pentium III .iso with these binaries is at: http://tinyurl.com/djpp (please try to use mirrors) You can also `emerge rpm`, but I have no idea how well RPMs work with Gentoo. > What is the right way to update portage using the tree snapshot? Is just > unpacking the snapshot enough? I would imagine you just unpack it to /usr/portage. If you are using the group binaries, tho', be sure you DON'T update the portage tree or `emerge sync`until AFTER you have installed the group packages. I would imagine the 1.4_rc2 docs on the Gentoo website <http://tinyurl.com/dxbe> covers this. HTH, Stroller. -- Enjoyed this post? Thanks for reading - please consider employing me! Technical support / system administration - CV available on request Linux / Unix / Windows / Mac OS X - UK or anywhere considered -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
