Re: [gentoo-user] Need some advice on to switch from mandrake to gentoo.

[Arne Vogel]

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
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?
 

Sure you can! However, you may want to consider installing from your 
existing Mandrake
installation. You should actually be able to install Gentoo on the same 
partition (into a subdirectory,
using chroot - see the handbook), and later replace the Mandrak 
installation (except for /home) with it,
though the transition may be a little tricky (mv, rm, cp etc. may 
break). I would recommend booting
from the LiveCD before performing this last step. How much disk space do 
you have left on /?

Alternatively, install everything from binary, this will save lots and 
lots of time, you will be able to
compile packages later.

2. How long will it take to get a running KDE setup with the two live 
cd's.
 

The 6 hours I saw mentioned here seem like an underestimate for an 
installation from sources.
On my Athlon XP 2400 , I have (displayed with genlop -t):

kdelibs: merge time: 1 hour, 39 minutes and 10 seconds.
kdebase: merge time: 1 hour, 50 minutes and 52 seconds.
kdegraphics: merge time: 40 minutes and 19 seconds
kdemultimedia: merge time: 1 hour, 4 minutes and 7 seconds.
kdenetwork: merge time: 43 minutes and 24 seconds.
kdegames: merge time: 44 minutes and 52 seconds
etc.
xfree: merge time: 1 hour, 9 minutes and 14 seconds.
gcc: merge time: 26 minutes and 4 seconds.
glibc: merge time: 55 minutes and 45 seconds
Various other packages that will be needed for your installation add up 
to let's say 3 hours,
that would be 12 1/2 hours in total. Deduct 20% for your faster 
processor, and it's still about
10 hours.

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