How many times have you rebuilt?

[Penguin of Wonder]

After the roughly six times it took me to get the install done correctly. I'm slow, I know. I've haven't had to do a reinstall since then. That was about a year ago.
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[jamapii]

I think I never installed gentoo the "official" way. I don't know how to do it

And I didn't reinstall in the last few years, even Windows.

The first time in 2004 I unpacked a stage3 and booted into it (after setting up DHCP, TFTP, NFS booting...). It's still running. (save a few reboots due to a missing UPS)

Then I upgraded 2 Suse installations to Gentoo, to avoid a complete reinstall.

The next few computers had hard disks, so the steps were boot into modified stage3, fdisk, mount, ROOT=/mnt/... emerge ..., do some /dev tricks or it doesn't work, edit config files...

[PARENA]

January 2003 was my first Gentoo install on my desktop machine. It was the first time I was completely without Windows and that has remained ever since. I did do a re-install in June 2003, because I had a completely broken FS. Just this month, I had to do another re-install, because I bought a new system (went from Athlon T-bird to Athlon 64 X2).

We also have a laptop at home that got Gentoo the day after we bought it (somewhere in 2003 I believe) and it's had 1 re-install, but I don't remember why.

[Q-collective]

After the first initial tries to install Gentoo in 2004, I have only reinstalled it once (yeah, I fubar'ed the system and hated Gnome ever since).

[vibrokatana]

I have installed gentoo a dozen times or so in the last 6 years or so, I keep wanting to try out new exparamental stuff. Luckly I got a new system that doesnt have hardware dying every week(I hate dell) so its been good since I got my new computer.
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[Caustiq]

Since 2004, I've been keeping my system up to date with the latest stable packages (and a few bleeding-edge packages). I have yet to reinstall from scratch, so zero.

[padoor]

i must be the record holder.
to get a working gentoo i had to install 29 times. 30th one worked.
after i got my working installation in jan 2006 i had 2 installations in my computer.
one lasted untill july2006 then the expat problem came up and reinstalled from scratch.
the second one lasted till june 2006 i had to reinstall because of migration to modular X and xmodmap became non installable.
now the installations are uptodate and both are working ok. with modular X , kde-3.5.4.
the emerge -Du world has caused all my reinstall problems..
this is my 32 nd installation from scratch.

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[renrutal]

Two or three reinstalls, I don't remember exactly.

First one was after a major xorg crashing that couldn't be resolved by cleaning and reinstalls.

The last one was after a visit in Slackware and Debian worlds, after Debian crashed on me (yes). I literally started the 2006.0 livecd on March 12 at night, and gave up using the installers on the 15th(it was a busy week). From there I used the handbook method only.

Wed Mar 15 22:29:01 2006 >>> sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r1
(...)
Tue Mar 21 04:36:50 2006 >>> dev-util/kdevelop-3.3.1

Almost non-stop.

(xorg was compiled twice, one for 6.8, another for 7.0, I had to take care of some circular dependencies manually, plus the time when the emerge stopped while I was sleeping or not at home, plus the extra compile time you need when you're using the PC at the same time)

PS: I'm Gentooer since 2004.