--- Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For a binary distro, 4gig should be LOADS of space. For Gentoo it seems > to be adequate, but kinda tight. You should be able to determine for > yourself, on one of your other machines, how much space is being > consumed by the Portage tree & by distfiles. You may be surprised.
> What image are you now downloading & why..? You should be able to do > quite an adequate install using a Gentoo CD that is even some months > old! The CD's that were burnt for me were for a Stage3 GRP Install for a PIII architecture. The PC that I'm trying to install Gentoo on now, is a PII. So the stage3 PIII images are different. No? Yes? Being that the CD's were meant for a PIII architecture image could I still get away with using the GRP/files portion off the install CD's even know that this is a i686 stage3 image versus a PIII stage3 image? I thought that if these CD's were burnt for a stage3 PIII architecture that the accompanying GRP files would be for that architecture as well. No? Yes? Correct me If I'm wrong but I thought that the GRP files were in binary format instead of source? When you compile from the source isn't this essentially creating a binary file once compilation's finished or am I misunderstanding how Gentoo emerge works? > Yes! You can delete anything you don't need! > Start with that 94Meg "stage3.tar.bz2", as soon as you've unpacked it. > Next time it stalls, delete everything out of distfiles, and try > `emerge -up world --resume`. It's quite possible that you have the full > source in distfiles for 2 different versions of Portage, baselayout, > gcc & gcclib. Once you have deleted the old ones you should have enough > space to compile the new ones. Also check out the contents of /tmp - > with copious use of the `du` command you should be able to work out > for yourself what is consuming space - I am sure that with a 4gig drive > it will be possible to pare things down enough to get up to date. > > Stroller. Thanks, Stroller. Joshua Banks __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
