Jose Gonzalez Gomez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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
I'm in a similar situation to yours (almost same tool set too). What I do is build my next gentoo install on whatever box (rh, gentoo etc.) in a chroot. This way I'm not wasting any time waiting for things to emerge. Than I tar up my chroot, keep it some place safe, boot, partition and unpack the tarballs across the network (NFS, FTP, netcat -- whatever is handy). This way I have exactly the system I want on first boot (GNOME, Emacs, Java etc.) with about 20 minutes (tops) down-time. You hit the ground running so to speak. Matt -- Matthew Kennedy Gentoo Linux Developer Bugs go to http://bugs.gentoo.org! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
