Or, you could do Saybayon, which is Gentoo with the basics already compiled. It doesn't take as long to compile as normal Gentoo, but you get a lot of the same advantages, and if you change your Ports source, you can actually convert Saybayon to Gentoo, on your own time schedule.
SteveT On Tue, 7 Feb 2012 23:14:08 -0500 Michael Potts <[email protected]> wrote: > Gentoo would likely be a great 'worst case senario' install but it > would take a huge amount of time. > > I have been toying with doing it off a remote VM with a nice beefy > system, but even then it would not be that fast. Something like a > Core i7 system locally may work better than my 4x3.0GHz Xeon server. > > With a compile taking 3+ hours, it may need to be done TV-chef style, > with a pre-done VM all ready after the compile stage. Just drop the > 'raw' compile task in, pause the VM and unpause the already-completed > VM. > > Michael Potts > GV: (904) 638-2914 | Gtalk: [email protected] > @HMHackMaster | http://about.me/MichaelPotts > > > > On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Jess Hires <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I'd like to see this with Gentoo. ;D > > > > On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Rob McKennon <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > Wow, > > > > > > The next meeting is less than 2 weeks away! Dan Bidleman and/or > > > myself will be presenting on "how to install Linux". > > > Demonstrating the basics > > of > > > setting up the partitions, sound and networking. We hope to do > > > this simultaneously with different distributions. We also have a > > > request to demonstrate how to load linux as a "Dual Boot" along > > > side Windows 7. > > > > > > We'll see how it goes... > > > > > > Rob. > > > > > > p.s. if you want to see a specific distro installed, let us know > > > soon! > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > > > Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-**list&r=1&w=2< > > http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2> > > > RSS Feed > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/**[email protected]/maillist.xml< > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > > Unsubscribe [email protected] > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
