What speed/RAM is your laptop? I have an 8GB partition for Gentoo on a dual PII-300 with 512MB, and openoffice from source took about 45 hours (yes!) to compile, and pushed my disk usage to about 75%.
Makes mozilla or KDE downright quick! :) Loyd On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 16:00:31 -0500, Ullrich Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm trying to install Gentoo (vanilla-sources) onto an old Toshiba Equium >7350S. It has a 10 GB IDE drive which I've partitioned with Partition >Magic Pro to leave my Windows 2k partition at about 2 GB. I initially >partitioned it to about 4 GB, but found that after I finally got GenToo >installed so that I have a bash prompt, when I tried to do > >emerge -u gnome mozilla openoffice kde > >it chugged for about 48 hours then came up with "no more disk space >available" and sure enough, stat -f . from / showed that my 5 GB linux >root partition was full. -- Mediocrity: It takes a lot less time and most people won't notice the difference until it's too late. <http://www.despair.com/> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#504581 http://www.blackrobes.net/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
