On Thursday 13 June 2002 18:31, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > Nick Rout wrote: > > do you want to really do gentoo if we have limited outside download > > resources? It has to download all the sources then compile them. It > > takes a lot of time (X alone is something like 50-60 MB). There is also > > nothing "automatic" about it, quite tricky, it will take a > > disproportionate amount of the volunteers time to supervise it, and take > > up space another installer could be using. > > You can install a prebuilt stage3. > I have the file and am going to experiment with it.
not optimised for your machine though, which defeats (part of) the purpose :-)
