040207 Grendel wrote: > I need some advice about switchin from mandrake 9.1 to gentoo. > My setup is this, Athlon 3000xp with Asus a7n8x motherboard
i did something v similar 0310 & was surprised how easy it was. Gentoo has excellent dox & is much more user-friendly than its reput'n & there's a v friendly community of developers/users. you do have to pay attention to what you're doing, of course. > My 80gb disk is partioned in to / and /home, I would like to keep /home. copy /home to CD & re-install it: surely, that's simplest. > I have downloaded the athlon-xp optimised 2 live cd's. just what i did. > My nvnet nforce2 ethernet is automatically detected by the live cd1, > so I have everything working. you don't need the Internet to install Gentoo, if you use GRP. > Now since this is for my workstation, > I would like to get it up and running fast, so I have some questions. > 1. Can I install using the 2 live'cds > and then upgrade later to the recent sources? yes, that's what i did. > 2. How long will it take to get a running KDE set up w the live cd's. a few minutes or less: use the compiled version on CD 2 . i'm still using that version, while i wait for KDE 3.2 to become reliable. i use Konqueror as my regular browser, but XFCE as desktop. > 3. I have a broadband connection so large downloads are not a problem. that's important once you have a running system & want to update things. with similar h/ware & I/net connection to yours, i downloaded/compiled/installed OpenOffice 1.1 in c 5 h 30 m & this wk ditto KOffice 1.3 in 1 h 16 m . obviously, you do it on a spare desktop while you get on w other things. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
