Cheers
Jason
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 11:00, you wrote:
...OK, First things first:-your
How many people on the list would be seriously interested in this?
The number interested will define the location of the venue.
Note that you _must_ have a linux compatible network card installed in
machine for this idea to even totter into the realm of possiblity. We
will also need a hub / switch with sufficient ports > for each machine...
The key issue as I see it is that the compiling stage takes such a very
long time on anything but real fireburning gear. From what I've read,
I'm expecting it to take my notebook to be hammering away for several
days to get an X environment up and going, but I imagine it's going to
take *quite* a long time to get even a minimal CLI setup going - and
thats assuming no h'ware problems.
So, the question is, what can be reasonably expected from a <8hr
session?
I'd expect that everybody could go home with a working system created from the
stage3.tar.bz2 archive file. They would then go home with whatever sources they want to compile up later. emerge allows one to just d/l a source archive file and not compile it.
Remember that altough Gentoo is a "source distribution", you don't _have_ to build absolutely everything from scratch. LFS is the one to use if you want to do that.
Those folk seriously interested should do just a tiny bit of the rtfm act:-
http://www.gentoo.org/
http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml and for x86 machines: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml
-- C. S.
