well it would have been nicer if we had distcc working properly. How did
Sunday go?
The 2 PC's we left compiling on Saturday night crapped out some time during the night.
We decided that Gentoo wasn't the right choice for those PC's and gave up. I installed Mandrake 9.1 on Bob's PC and the other guy (who's name I can't remember atm) took his PC home to do install Mandrake 8.2 again.
Both these people didn't quite know what they were getting themselves into before bringing their PC's in, but I think they learned quite a bit from the exercise.
I tidied up and left at about 1:30pm.
There were a couple of things left behind. There was a 3m extension cord and an F5 key. There is also a few install manuals left behind and some CD's if anyone wants them.
Later
David Kirk
Hi all,
a big thanks also from me! It really was fun on Saturday and I've learned a lot. Unfortunately I couldn't make it on Sunday, because my box was compiling KDE until late in the afternoon (and it works :)! ). David, could you let me know sometime when you are at OSTC that I can come and emerge -f openoffice, mozilla and evolution? I also wondered if it is possible to specify something like "file://..." as GENTOO_MIRROR in make.conf. Does anybody know?
Cheers, Conrad.
p.s.:
What do you do, if you've got a system that hasn't got telnet yet, but you'd need telnet to install telnet (uni firewall)?
Chuck in Knoppix, telnet the firewall server, make the change root thing to the Gentoo partition and emerge the telnet package. I couldn't believe it, but it worked :)!
