On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 11:27:12 +1200 Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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. > hey this *is* seriously good stuff. damn i can't wait to have this up and running now. > 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 > ah. good documentation - this looks like it distro wise. cheers peter
