Works for me. I'm just not going to volunteer to bring 'em all, that's all...
:) Kev. > Hi Kev. > I would agree, that 30 would be a lot, but if the room has 30 machines, > then > why not ? At the end of the day, we may just end up doing 6-7 machines > anyways, though i would really like to go into the double digits decimal. > Cheers > Szemir > > > On December 5, 2004 09:53, Kevin Anderson wrote: >> The Gentoo boot CDs have it on them as well... >> >> 30 machines is a lot. Personally, if I was to do it, I'd plan for maybe >> 5-7. Then I'd have volunteers set up the 5-7 boxes with DistCC, and then >> show the time to emerge something reasonably big. Perhaps the kernel. >> But >> even 5-7 boxes existing purely to compile on is a lot in a room which is >> short on power... >> >> Kev. >> >> On Saturday 04 December 2004 12:54, bogi wrote: >> > Yes. >> > And there is a special knoppix with distcc on it configured to run. >> The >> > idea is, to boot one of the computer rooms at devry, having 30odd >> > computers in it, while the distcc explanation presentation procedes, >> and >> > once we have distcc running, on a whole room full of computers, the >> > gentoo presentation can start, and a stage 1 can be presented, >> hopefully >> > within one hour. We might want to run a full dress rehearsal a week >> > before the event, to make sure everything is hunky dory [ >> > http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-hun2.htm ]. >> > >> > After this, we can retain the technology .... and do some more compile >> > presentations, first to spring to mind, is kernel, in several >> different >> > ways, gnome, kde, and indeed any of the big packages. >> > >> > Cheers >> > Szemir >> > >> > On December 4, 2004 10:53, Kevin Anderson wrote: >> > > Not Necessarily. >> > > >> > > I think there are two things being discussed here. The first is >> "How >> > > to get gentoo installed on a single system in under an hour" The >> > > second is "How to speed up Gentoo emerges with DistCC". >> > > >> > > They could be combined, but the truth is, There would need to be >> ALOT >> > > of machines before I could see Gentoo up and running in less than an >> > > hour via compiles. If I was going to do it in less than an hour, >> I'd >> > > use the install media to install from, including the Kernel, and I'd >> > > install X and KDE from packages. Which would mean that nothing was >> > > compiled at all. >> > > >> > > I'm good with either option, but I think there should be some line >> > > between the two, because they aren't necessarily related. >> > > >> > > Personally, I think DistCC would have more value, firstly because it >> > > rocks even for people not running Gentoo. And secondly, because >> it's >> > > fast and easy, and it's really neat to see it working. Frankly, I >> was >> > > shocked that I could have it running in my house on my 3 main >> machines >> > > in less than an hour, and particularly since one is a Celeron, >> (where >> > > any compile totally sucks) the benefits were enormous. This >> benefits >> > > anyone doing anything that requires compiling on any distro. Aaron >> has >> > > mentioned IceCream before, and from the sound of it, it's a step >> > > better, because it resolves crosscompiling, and different versions >> of >> > > GCC, and stuff, but DistCC works great for me. >> > > >> > > I'd be happy to do either. Or IPcop, though it was suggested that >> > > IPcop would work better as a whole session one afternoon. >> > > >> > > Kev. >> > > >> > > On Friday 03 December 2004 23:48, Nick W wrote: >> > > > On December 3, 2004 10:47 pm, Shawn wrote: >> > > > > I think that was the distcc presentation... >> > > > > >> > > > > Can we do a quickie on distcc in Jan? Would someone volunteer >> for >> > > > > this? (cuz I don't know enough to do it...) >> > > > >> > > > distcc and fast gentoo installs go hand in hand... >> > > > >> > > > _______________________________________________ >> > > > clug-talk mailing list >> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >> > > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >> > > > **Please remove these lines when replying >> > > >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > clug-talk mailing list >> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >> > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >> > > **Please remove these lines when replying >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > clug-talk mailing list >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >> > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >> > **Please remove these lines when replying >> >> _______________________________________________ >> clug-talk mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >> **Please remove these lines when replying > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
