On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, Arne Vogel wrote: > If you remove Mandrake before the install, it definitely should. When > you run low on disk > space with a Gentoo installation, check your /usr/portage/distfiles. > That's where the downloads > go, and Gentoo doesn't delete anything in it automatically.
Ok. > Here's a simple script that you might also find useful (I've installed > this as /usr/bin/diskusage): > du --max-depth=1 "$@" | sort -n -r | less Thanks, this is most usefull. > I'm not sure... for broadband, download times should be much lower than > compile times > (my 768-kbps DSL line manages about 360 Megabytes per hour, others are > still faster). Yes. > Currently, emerge does not support simultaneous downloading and > compiling (at least I > know nothing about such an option), in the future it could download the > next package > while the current package is still compiling. For now, you can more or > less emulate this > by starting an emerge -f (options) (packages) first, waiting for one or > more downloads to > complete, and then starting another emerge (options) (packages) with the > same arguments > except "-f" (without terminating the first emerge). Though this may > cause trouble should the second > emerge ever catch up with the first... I'm not sure whether running 2 > wget processes on > the same file is a good idea. If the file to be downloaded exist, wget simply downloads the file as filename.1 > >hmm.this was fast....xfree86 needs a large volume of space and takes a lot > >of time to compile too usually. > Maybe this is because the gcc was Athlon-XP-optimized with -O3? :-) I can see that the compiler should be one of the first things to be compiled in as even a 5% speed increase in compiler speed can speed up the compile time of the larger packages a lot. > >step by step as time permits, I suppose this is the best option. > > > > > Make it so! Thx, will be doing it tonight when no one is using the desktop :) I really appreciate all the help this list is giving me. Bye, grendel -- Hi, I'm a signature virus. plz set me as your signature and help me spread :) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
