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Travis86
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 Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 8:57 pm Post subject: Yay! I finally installed Gentoo! It took me 172 hours. |
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Well, I now have Gentoo successfully installed for the first time. It took me about a year to learn how, and I finally did it. I spent all of the time I could on it, leaving it to compile stuff when I left or went to bed. From the time I started downloading the live CD, to the time I opened Firefox was 172 hours. That's Friday at 9:00 in the morning to the next Friday at 1:00 in the afternoon.
The computer I was using is an HP with a 300 Mhz AMD K6 and 64 MB of ram. I was doing it on there before I try it on my dual 1.8 Ghz G5. I doubt it will take long on there.
Thanks to everyone who helped me when I hit a glitch (especially lookinin), I couldn't have done it without this forum. |
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gentoo_lan
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| Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Congrats and enjoy the Gentoo experience. |
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supersponge
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| Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 4:17 am Post subject: |
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| You have much more patience than I. |
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Goalie_Ca
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| Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 4:48 am Post subject: |
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wtf, last time i did an install it was like 8 hours with gnome. granted, i'm very comfortable with linux but the emerge process takes 99% of the time. what the hell did you install?? binary packages help a lot btw...
btw takes more than 8 hours to install windows and everything i use. quite pathetic.
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lookinin
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| Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 4:51 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Thanks to everyone who helped me when I hit a glitch (especially lookinin), I couldn't have done it without this forum. |
Now I feel all warm & fuzzy  But I'm probably the reason it took 172 hours 
edit: and travis, if you haven't all ready, you might want to look into distcc & ccache - I've got a dual 266 that I thought would be a real pain to keep up to date with gentoo, but so far, I'm quite happy with it because of those two enhancements. |
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Lokheed
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| Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 5:58 am Post subject: |
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| Goalie_Ca wrote: | wtf, last time i did an install it was like 8 hours with gnome. granted, i'm very comfortable with linux but the emerge process takes 99% of the time. what the hell did you install?? binary packages help a lot btw...
btw takes more than 8 hours to install windows and everything i use. quite pathetic. |
*Lokheed points to the poor guys CPU.
Goalie, did you know compilation is CPU dependent? That means compiling something on an AMD64 3000+ isnt going to take as long as compiling on a PII 450.
Travis, you have great taste in distro's, but I dont know about your logic. Do you realize the compile times on a machine that slow? Its probably going to take you 30 minutes to compile Nano. Unless you never want to update a package and simply use your box "as is", I would suggest using binary based distro. The amount of time you are going to use compiling programs wont near outway any type of speed reduction you will see using a precompiled binary...
Not to be a party-pooper 
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Goalie_Ca
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| Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 7:40 am Post subject: |
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yes i know of crappy cpu's, my system ain't exactly up to date. but that's besides the point.
binary packages for grp and stage 3 would have made a big difference. openoffice binaries, firefox binary and java binary are nice too. that can make a fairly close to usable installation though a few months out of date at the time of this writing (oh my!!!!).
seriously though, ubuntu might be more attractive....
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Lokheed
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| Goalie_Ca wrote: | | seriously though, ubuntu might be more attractive.... |
I agree, though I dont think his G5 will have much of a problem with compile times...
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Goalie_Ca
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I've been planning to do it on my ibook 1.2 ghz g4 for a while but i've been swamped with school. but shit compiles reasonably fast on it in os x so i figure his g5 rig should just scream. try it out with gcc 4.0.. it should rock!
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