On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 00:56, Grendel wrote: > Hi all, > > I need some advice about switchin from mandrake 9.1 to gentoo. > My setup is this, Athlon 3000xp with Asus a7n8x motherboard Good idea, to move in Gentoo. Welcome. > > My 80gb disk is partioned in to / and /home, I would like to keep /home.
> I have downloaded the athlon-xp optiomised 2live cd's. > > My nvnet nforce2 ethernet is automatically detected by the live cd1, so I > have everything working. > > Now since this is for my workstation, I would like to get it up and > running fast, so I have some questions. > > 1. Can I install using the 2 live'cds and then upgrade later to the recent > sources? yeap, actually, if you wanna you can start directly with stage3 that provide you all content of bootsplash and "emerge system" and also "emerge sync". this will save you 5 hours. so verify if you CD provide the latest version of the stage file. One time that you de-compress stage3 to your root partition, you have to continue with Gentoo handbook in "kernel configuration" remember that to upgrade you portage tree you have to do as root #emerge sync so when the tree are updated you may try #emerge -u system -> update base system #emerge -u world -> update the installed packages > 2. How long will it take to get a running KDE setup with the two live > cd's. > I guess that you will spend +/- 6 hours to put KDE to work, but I'm not sure 'cause I use gnome. I think that have some compiled packages to download at portage tree but I'm not sure of how to do that, so maybe somebody can explain that. > 3. I have a broadband connection so large downloads are not a problem. > > > > > Thanks, > Grendel. > I hope I help you. Claudinei Matos -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
