[ale] Gentoo Linux install question

[Charles Marcus]

> From: Geoffrey [mailto:esoteric at 3times25.net]
> Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 9:24 PM
>
> I think that was it.  I've added memory, I'm at 32mb now.
> I also enabled 64mb swap.  I modified the conf file to use
> the proper pentium flags and it's chugging along right now.
> I figure it might be done by morning.
> If it works, I'm liable to power it down, pull the memory
> out I added and try again. :)  This is fun....

It really is...  I learned more about Linux from the first two or three
Gentoo installs than I did the first 6 months of Redhat.

You'll probably be OK with the 32MB (the docs said *ideally* at least
64MB) - but it will probably take a *long* time to do the bigger installs
(X, KDE, etc).

I'm trying to remember - on my Athlon 1.2Ghz with 1.5GB of RAM, it took
about 2 hours for the first bootstrap, then about 3-4 hours for the system
emerge.  I do X and KDE at the same time, and have always started it before
I leave from work, so don't know how long those take - probably 5-6 hours.

So, it could literally take you a couple of days to get it all going.

Obviously, doing a Gentoo install from scratch is not the fastest way to get
a Server up and running, which is why we would have to define some paramters
for Server hardware, and pre-build some ISO install CD's if we were doing
Server installations on a regular basis.

Charles


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