On Friday 21 March 2003 21:08, Matthew Kennedy wrote: > I always install from stage1 and I never wait for it to compile. > Consider building everything you need from which ever stage in a > chroot'ed environment on your existing GNU/Linux distribution. This > way you can still be productive while your build proceeds. When its > done, tar it up and reboot to install it. Down-time for me each time > I do this about 20 minutes (the time to reboot and unpack it). >
Of course this is a viable solution. The only problem is that it doesn't work if there is no previous linux distro, just some NTFS partition you don't even know of what it contains. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Researcher Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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