Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question - migration from RH8

[Jose Gonzalez Gomez]

    First of all, thanks to all that have provided advice on how to migrate.

    Ok, so I've made up my mind and want to migrate to Gentoo... should I wait until 1.4 final or does the portage system make irrevelevant the distribution you start with? Is there an expeceted release date for 1.4 final?

    Thanks, regards
    Jose

Matthew Kennedy wrote:

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