minimizing gentoo install?

nenn · Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 4:57 am Post subject: minimizing gentoo install?

how can i just install the core files needed, then a window mangager ontop of that? i dont want my gentoo install being more than 500 mbs.

thx in advance.
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Shopro · Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 5:48 am Post subject:

Please don't double post.
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nenn · Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 5:53 am Post subject:

how about an answer then? i know that when i wasnt using a PPC i never came to this board, so if i post here and people dont see it, it doesnt help me, so i posted it there, people dont go to every board in a forum. and why not go with the hey if you dont have anything nice to say dont say anything at all. a good reply is worth alot, a bad reply is just a pathetic attempt to get your post count higher.
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DrZoidberg · Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 1:30 pm Post subject:

So just emerge xorg and your favoite window manager/desktop (XFCE/rox might be good.). Gentoo's base system is pretty minimal--you're not going to have GNOME/KDE/OpenOffice installed by default.
What exactly do you want to do with your computer?

You might need more than 500MB to compile xorg. (Sorry I don't know offhand.)

JDCentral · Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 5:48 pm Post subject:

Yeah.. you'll probably need at least 700 MB to compile xorg...

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/stable/x/installing.html
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