I agree totally with Tyler. If you need an operational system while you install KNOPPIX is the way to go. It also does a rather incredible job of autodetecting hardware... so on a new machine a: # lsmod # cat /proc/pci and copy over the XF86config-4 or at least look at it as well as all the pertinent stuff in /etc will get you on the road to a pain free Gentoo install (start Gentoo instructions around step 6, in install doc). Also, if you would like to actually be able to do real work in the ~20+hrs it will take to install to a full KDE you can emerge in 'nice' mode. I usually use:
# nice -15 emerge [program names] which will compile full speed when you aren't doing anything but slow the build to a trickle if you really need CPU time. Cheers, Jason On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Tyler Trafford wrote: > On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 03:20:55PM -0500, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > Content-Description: signed data > > 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. > > A Knoppix CD could help. That's what I use it for. > -- > Tyler Trafford > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
