* Mark Knecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I think there is no difference in size between any of these distros > really. KDE is the size of KDE. Gnome is the size of Gnome. > Differences are pretty small compared to the overall size of things. > > The first step would be to mount /usr/portage on a separate machine > using NFS. Setup an NFS server on that remote box, export the > directory as rw, and then mount it as rw on your machine in fstab. At > this point all the code that's downloaded by your box is actually > placed on another machine where you have space. Keep i mind that this > is 2-3 times the network traffic when you are building code - > Internet->small machine->NFS drive for storage-> small machine to be > built. None the less it works. > > More practical is to just do things normall and watch after the > /usr/portage/distfiles. I currently have 600MB in mine on this laptop. > On the small MythTV frontend machine I have 425MB right now but on > machines I haven't cleaned up I have 1.5GB. It gets big over time. > > You can erase anything in this directory at the risk of needing to > download it again if you decide to rebuild it. None the less it's easy > to clean up to give oyu more space quickly.
Very cool. I will start there and see if I get benefits which are workable. > > Sure - OK to test it out. Hard to live on it forever. But build > fluxbox for test and learn, not Gnome. ;-) > Exactly what I did actually. Generally Fluxbox and ratpoison are the only two "desktops" I use. I only use fluxbox to tempwm into when I use the gimp or some such multi-windowed app. Ratpoison is rough on those. I really only keep Gnome around as things like Gramps needs it. In this case I intended to install it only to see how I felt about the final product in my test. That I can't is not really a big deal in itself, but it caused me to wonder about the space usage in general. > > That's fast enough. I used to use Gentoo on a 750 Athlon at my old > job. It was fast enough. Not great but it got done. More memory helps, > etc. > > You'll probably like Gentoo once you get past the shock of building it > the first time. I built a new machine with fluxbox and MythTV and had > it booting and starting to work in about 3-4 hours 2 weekends ago. > Like I said, the first time it took me days to build and longer to > learn about the commands necessary to administer it. (I'm neither a > programmer or IT person. I'm a guitar player using Linux for music, > email, web browsing and TV watching.) For someone like me it was a bit > trying for all the nice people here to teach me but the folks here are > like no others I've met on any list. Very, very, very helpful folks > who share a huge amount of knowledge in a completely open way. I've > learned a lot. I only screw up once a day now. ;-) > > - Mark > Well, I have to say that just for one day on this old Pentium3 I am very impressed. I was a bit intimidated but I do like the final product. I had wanted to install from sources rather than binary packages as I had to but without a high speed internet connection I could not consider it. But as a compromise I like this a lot, and Debian, Slack and all the others are from binaries as well. So in that sense it is no different, but I like the philosophy behind it so much more than the others. That is why I have wanted to try it out for so long. I just don't understand why they don't make iso images of the source packages available as well as the binary stuff. It would make a more traditional install available for folks like me. But, that is a small complaint I suppose. many thanks, patrick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
