Gentoo?

Mahony · 04-11-2004, 09:25 AM

Okay I'm going to start.

Again thanks for all your help

American Psycho · 04-11-2004, 02:14 PM

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Originally posted by CBlue
After you get the kernel emerged in Gentoo stage 1, then emerging becomes alittle faster, but it still will take a few hours (going by my memory, could be longer or shorter) to get x-server, then to emerge kde. This page here http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/desktop.xml will give you step by step instructions on how to emerge xfree86, kde, gnome, and your email programs. Follow this guide and you will get your gui up and running pretty good.

i remember a stage 2 build took me 4 hours once

and when i tried a stage one and the bootstrap failed, by the end of the bootstrap i was already at 3+ hours

CBlue · 04-12-2004, 09:13 AM

Stage one does take hours if you emerge anything before you get the kernel emerged, it takes a whole lot longer to emerge than after you get the kernel emerged. But it will still take hours to emerge things after the kernel, but having the kernel emerged as soon as you can will speed up the process better.

69_rs_ss · 04-12-2004, 09:23 AM

I installed from a stage 2 yesterday. It took 3 hours to get Gentoo installed and about another 30 min for Xfree. I haven't installed a DE yet though. I do have a newer computer and broadband so that is why it's fater. The problem you'll have is if you emerge KDA or Gnome. Those are very big and can take up to 16 hours installing all of it. The reason why it takes so long is because all apps you emerge are downloaded, then built from source and optimized to your computer.

Boow · 04-12-2004, 10:40 AM

You could try linuxfromscratch you use another distro to build it LFS takes a few hours to build if you dont screw up like i did . It took me 4 days of trial an error to build it. I learned alot im ready to try Gentoo.