On ons, 2003-03-05 at 15:42, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: > Hi, > > I've been a RH8 user for a few months, and I'm really sick of the > rpm stuff. I had a lot of problems installing a few things, and I still > have things not working, like video conferencing. I heard of the gentoo > distribution and thought I'd give it a try. > > I'm a freelance Java developer, and I have two machines: one that > serves as develoment server (CVS, Apache, JBoss, OC4J, SAPDb, etc) and > another one that I use as development workstation (Gnome, Netbeans, and > the usual stuff like Mozilla, OpenOffice,...). I have taken a look to > several reviews of Gentoo, and they all tell the same about installing > it: it takes a loooooong time. I cannot afford having one of my machines > down for a long period of time, so I was thinking about the way of > migrating from RH8 to Gentoo. I have thought of buying another hard > disk, install Gentoo on it, pass all my files from the old system to the > new system, and use the old disk to repeat the same process in the new > machine... what do you think of this? Any other solution?
hmm, do u mean compiling one one machine and move the allready compiled programs to the other machine? im not sure, but i suppose that should work if the machine have equal hardware > Please, notice > I don't want to have several distributions lying around, so I think that > making another partition and adding a new system to GRUB is not a solution. > > About installation time... my machines are AMD (1Ghz and 1,66 Ghz) > with 256 and 512Mb of RAM. yes, installation takes time..., but you should have a ready system if you let it compile the whole weekend (including nights) > I have an ADSL connection that gives me > 25Kbytes/s. How much time do you think I may spend installing these > systems? Is there any way to leverage the downloaded sources, so I don't > have to download the same twice? yes, downloaded files are saved and are not deletead unless you do it by yourself, so u could do one of the boxes one weekend, then nfs share the downloaded sources and move them over to the other machine > May I install Gentoo in several short > steps shuting down the machine between them? Another question... is it > possible to "rollback" an installation in Gentoo? > > Regards > Jose > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Martin Larsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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