On 28/08/2017 13:41, mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: > Ok, i'm starting to understand the install instructions, a steeper curve > than i expected but still way easier than LFS. > So, on a dual core athlon II 6000 (two cores, 3ghz) roughly how long > will stage3 take to compile, roughly?
You don't compile a stage 3, that has already been done and you downloaded it. You bunzip2 and untar a stage 3. >From that point on, you will do exactly the same that you will do for every other world update on Gentoo you will ever do: - set USE flags as needed - set items in make.conf as needed - decide what software you want - tell portage to make it so The "make it so" part is your real question, but no-one can answer it as it's a "how long is a piece of string" question. How many extra USE flags did you set? What software did you decide to add? How old is the stage 3 you used? A recent one will obviously need fewer recompiles than a 6-month old one. But to portage it's all the same - make a list of stuff to be done and do it from the beginning. There is really no functional point in updating the stage 3 and then doing the above; unless you want to see how it all works. Might be nice to do it the first time, but you will likely never do it again :-) With that hardware, I'd thumb suck guess about 3 hours if the machine will be headless, and closer to 12 if it's a workstation with most of say KDE or Gnome, plus a browser and openoffice and an MUA etc etc etc. But that's just a guess, could also be anywhere from 1 hour on the low end to 24 on the high end. Or more. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
