Re: [gentoo-user] Need some advice on to switch from mandrake to gentoo.

2004-02-07 Thread Arne Vogel
Grendel wrote: Currently, emerge does not support simultaneous downloading and compiling (at least I know nothing about such an option), in the future it could download the next package while the current package is still compiling. For now, you can more or less emulate this by starting an emerg

Re: [gentoo-user] Need some advice on to switch from mandrake to gentoo.

2004-02-07 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 07 February 2004 03:56, Grendel wrote: Hi, I have a lot slower box (AMD XP 2000), so you should be able to top this times: Sat Jan 31 13:17:14 2004 --> x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r3 merge time: 57 minutes and 58 seconds. Sat Jan 31 17:47:44 2004 --> x11-libs/qt-3.2.3-r1

Re: [gentoo-user] Need some advice on to switch from mandrake to gentoo.

2004-02-07 Thread Grendel
On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, Arne Vogel wrote: > If you remove Mandrake before the install, it definitely should. When > you run low on disk > space with a Gentoo installation, check your /usr/portage/distfiles. > That's where the downloads > go, and Gentoo doesn't delete anything in it automatically. O

Re: [gentoo-user] Need some advice on to switch from mandrake to gentoo.

2004-02-07 Thread Arne Vogel
Grendel wrote: On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, Arne Vogel wrote: Sure you can! However, you may want to consider installing from your existing Mandrake installation. You should actually be able to install Gentoo on the same partition (into a subdirectory, using chroot - see the handbook), and later repl

Re: [gentoo-user] Need some advice on to switch from mandrake to gentoo.

2004-02-07 Thread Grendel
On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, Arne Vogel wrote: > Sure you can! However, you may want to consider installing from your > existing Mandrake > installation. You should actually be able to install Gentoo on the same > partition (into a subdirectory, > using chroot - see the handbook), and later replace the

Re: [gentoo-user] Need some advice on to switch from mandrake to gentoo.

2004-02-07 Thread Arne Vogel
Grendel wrote: Hi all, I need some advice about switchin from mandrake 9.1 to gentoo. My setup is this, Athlon 3000xp with Asus a7n8x motherboard My 80gb disk is partioned in to / and /home, I would like to keep /home. I have downloaded the athlon-xp optiomised 2live cd's. My nvnet nforce2 ethe

Re: [gentoo-user] Need some advice on to switch from mandrake to gentoo.

2004-02-06 Thread Grendel
On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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. I dont think I wil have a problem with low level linux inte

Re: [gentoo-user] Need some advice on to switch from mandrake to gentoo.

2004-02-06 Thread Grendel
On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, Claudinei Matos wrote: > > 1. Can I install using the 2 live'cds and then upgrade later to the recent > > sources? > yeap, actually, if you wanna you can start directly with stage3 that > provide you all content of bootsplash and "emerge system" and also > "emerge sync". this

Re: [gentoo-user] Need some advice on to switch from mandrake to gentoo.

2004-02-06 Thread purslow
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Need some advice on to switch from mandrake to gentoo.

2004-02-06 Thread Claudinei Matos
On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 00:56, Grendel wrote: > Hi all, > > I need some advice about switchin from mandrake 9.1 to gentoo. > My setup is this, Athlon 3000xp with Asus a7n8x motherboard Good idea, to move in Gentoo. Welcome. > > My 80gb disk is partioned in to / and /home, I would like to keep /hom

[gentoo-user] Need some advice on to switch from mandrake to gentoo.

2004-02-06 Thread Grendel
Hi all, I need some advice about switchin from mandrake 9.1 to gentoo. My setup is this, Athlon 3000xp with Asus a7n8x motherboard My 80gb disk is partioned in to / and /home, I would like to keep /home. I have downloaded the athlon-xp optiomised 2live cd's. My nvnet nforce2 ethernet is automa