Gentoo Linux

[jkrohn]

if you are uber 133t and swim with the penguins before breakfast then go to stage 1 (definitely not me )

Hehe, stage 3? No way man. Stage 1 all the way.

All is going well except for me setting up lilo in place of grub. Seems to be no liloconfig so I'm hand creating my file and having trouble getting this bad boy a boot image


Just praying I don't haev to install grub (hate that bootloader )

Jkrohn

[jkrohn]

w00t, got that bad boy working

Gotta love Lilo

Jkrohn

[the jester]

wtg jkrohn what's the hardware?

droolz (from stage 1 that was fast )

[jkrohn]

Well i started last night

Did the initial rsync and build in about an hour and ahalf i'd say.

Then emeger system overnight, but the darn thing failed so i had to do it again this morning.

Then emerge lilo
setup lilo.conf and here I am

Currently grabbing X, KDE, Fluxbox and Gnome which is taking hella long
Hopefully I be up and running 100% by tonight.

Athlon T-bird 1.33
256 MB DDR

Jkrohn

[the jester]

with those specs I'm guessing 4-6 hrs (but that's guessing )

how are you liking it so far?

[jkrohn]

Dunno it's STILL compiling all those

What I've seen I like. It installed very, very minimal, which I like.

Now i get to customize to my hearts content

One thing that I am liking a lot is the package system. Seems to do a very good job of finding/auto installing dependencies.

As far as speed, Dunno yet Been in CLI the whole time compiling things

Jkrohn

[Scott Tiger]

How much harder is Gentoo than Slackware to setup? I like Slackware better than ANYTHING I've ever used but I've heard that Gentoo is really fast... If I can scrape up the dough for another box I might try it.

[the jester]

jkrohn - once it's done even gui is faster for me

scott tiger - why use a new box? I have gentoo and suse share 26Gb (1 13Gb drive each)

IMO slack was harder, debian the hardest so far - gentoo easier to set up, but requires careful reading of the ubiquitous FManual

nonetheless, gentoo would be a hard first taste of linux, so redhat and mandrake still have a place in the linux pantheon

[jkrohn]

Hehe, no idea if you do the stage 3 ISO, but if you do stage one be prepared for it to take at least 4 hours to do the initial (minimal) install and then add compiling time for every program you want there after

(by minimal I mean CLI only and basic system utils)

Gentoo basicly does what Linux From Scratch does, just slightly more automated.
(ie instead of manually building bash, bin-utils, then glibc, then rebuilding them all manually it is scripted to do it, but it takes the same amount of time)

This is from stage 1 though.
Stage 3 takes about 20 minutes to install, but leaves you with a minimal install again i believe.

Jkrohn

[crouse]

Think I'm gonna have to go try Gentoo.......... have a spare hard drive in a drive tray...... and it is easy to swap drives... so I think I'll go give it a whirl now.............. gonna go do some reading