Do not worry Jason, there are so many willing helpers on this list that if you have Internet access on another machine (and some patience) you would get help to get you through.
Regards, Robert -----Original Message----- From: Jason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 11 June 2003 12:09 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Gentoo Installfest (was Re: OpenBSD) I am interested but have downloaded the rc4 iso and will likely give that a try soon...as I'll likely fail (I know, be optimitstic right), I'd likely need a hand with the niggly bits. Cheers Jason Christopher Sawtell wrote: >On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 11:00, you wrote: > > >>>...OK, First things first:- >>> >>>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 >>> >>> >>your >> >> >> >>>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. > > > > >
