On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 10:26:28 -0500
Trey Sizemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was thinking of installing Gentoo on my maching starting this
> afternoon. My machine in a PII400 with 512M RAM, ATI All-inWonder 128
> video, CD-RW, 48X CD, Iiyama 450. Would it be realistic if I started
> instal
> I know of the stage 1-3 tarballs that can be used, but what is GRP?
> This sounds faster, but I'm not sure what it is.
>
GRP stands for Gentoo Reference Platform. It is a set of prebuild packages
that optionally comes with the 1.4_rc2 liveCD. One can just use emerge -K kde
to install the whole
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 15:02, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> On Friday 21 March 2003 18:52, Ernie Schroder wrote:
> >
> > You COULD install from the GRP CD images. That should get you up and
> > running in the time frame you're talking about. The disadvantage is
> > that you will be loosing a lot of the in
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 15:38, Robert Claeson wrote:
> Kwan Lowe wrote:
>
> > I've done a recent install on an AMD K6-2/500/384M with 30G 7200RPM
> > drive. From a Stage 1 tarball to a complete KDE3.1 desktop took almost
> > four days of continuous running (5 days wallclock).
>
> Does starting from
Kwan Lowe wrote:
I've done a recent install on an AMD K6-2/500/384M with 30G 7200RPM
drive. From a Stage 1 tarball to a complete KDE3.1 desktop took almost
four days of continuous running (5 days wallclock).
Does starting from stage 1 buy you much vs starting from stage 2 or 3?
/roc - impatient,
On Friday 21 March 2003 21:08, Matthew Kennedy wrote:
> I always install from stage1 and I never wait for it to compile.
> Consider building everything you need from which ever stage in a
> chroot'ed environment on your existing GNU/Linux distribution. This
> way you can still be productive while
Trey Sizemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I was thinking of installing Gentoo on my maching starting this
> afternoon. My machine in a PII400 with 512M RAM, ATI All-inWonder 128
> video, CD-RW, 48X CD, Iiyama 450. Would it be realistic if I started
> install (my first Gentoo install - currentl
On Friday 21 March 2003 18:52, Ernie Schroder wrote:
>
> You COULD install from the GRP CD images. That should get you up and
> running in the time frame you're talking about. The disadvantage is
> that you will be loosing a lot of the individual optomizations that
> make Gentoo special. With the G
Graham, Steve wrote:
Unfortunately I have yet to make it past the reboot after finishing the
kernel compile, but that's just because this is such a huge learning curve
for me.
I am rather curious though why gentoo takes so long to compile and setup
verses some of the other distros? Is it simply th
Trey Sizemore wrote:
I was thinking of installing Gentoo on my maching starting this
afternoon. My machine in a PII400 with 512M RAM, ATI All-inWonder 128
video, CD-RW, 48X CD, Iiyama 450. Would it be realistic if I started
install (my first Gentoo install - currently dual-booting WinXP and
L
give you a kernel compiled the way they
> want, or is there more to it than that?
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Ernie Schroder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 11:52 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Realistic Install time
our
custom kernel and the others just give you a kernel compiled the way they
want, or is there more to it than that?
-Original Message-
From: Ernie Schroder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 11:52 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Realistic Install time
On Friday 21 March 2003 10:26 am, Trey Sizemore wrote:
> I was thinking of installing Gentoo on my maching starting this
> afternoon. My machine in a PII400 with 512M RAM, ATI All-inWonder
> 128 video, CD-RW, 48X CD, Iiyama 450. Would it be realistic if I
> started install (my first Gentoo instal
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 10:26, Trey Sizemore wrote:
> I was thinking of installing Gentoo on my maching starting this
> afternoon. My machine in a PII400 with 512M RAM, ATI All-inWonder 128
> video, CD-RW, 48X CD, Iiyama 450. Would it be realistic if I started
> install (my first Gentoo install
> I was thinking of installing Gentoo on my maching starting this
> afternoon. My machine in a PII400 with 512M RAM, ATI All-inWonder
> 128
> video, CD-RW, 48X CD, Iiyama 450. Would it be realistic if I
> started
> install (my first Gentoo install - currently dual-booting WinXP
> and
> Lib
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 16:26, Trey Sizemore wrote:
> I was thinking of installing Gentoo on my maching starting this
> afternoon. My machine in a PII400 with 512M RAM, ATI All-inWonder 128
> video, CD-RW, 48X CD, Iiyama 450. Would it be realistic if I started
> install (my first Gentoo install
> I was thinking of installing Gentoo on my maching starting this
> afternoon. My machine in a PII400 with 512M RAM, ATI
> All-inWonder 128
> video, CD-RW, 48X CD, Iiyama 450. Would it be realistic if
> I started
> install (my first Gentoo install - currently dual-booting WinXP and
> Libranet 2.7
Am Freitag, 21. März 2003 16:26 schrieb ext Trey Sizemore:
> I was thinking of installing Gentoo on my maching starting this
> afternoon. My machine in a PII400 with 512M RAM, ATI All-inWonder 128
> video, CD-RW, 48X CD, Iiyama 450. Would it be realistic if I started
> install (my first Gentoo in
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