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[Deedra Waters]

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Actually, you don't need an overly fast box to do it on a stage 1 or 2. Some of the infrastructure people I work with build gentoo on very very very slow alpha's. It's doable on slow machines, but it takes quite a bit of time on slow machines. For example. glibc takes 3.5 hours to build on a p3 450 with 128mb of ram. I don't mind the slowness, because I like the end results, but if you want it to set up and work quickly, then stage3 is definitly better for you:)


On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Alex Snow wrote:

> I'd also emagine you need a relativly fast box if you are using stage 
> 1 or 2 with all the software compiling. the box I am working with is a 
> pII/233 with 72mb ram.
> On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 11:22:47AM -0600, Deedra 
> Waters wrote:
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> > Stage1 is fun, but it does take a lot to learn about it. I made the  mistake of starting out with stage1, and not knowing enough. Fortunately for me, I had  a friend who helped me when I had the wrong CFLAGS set, among other problems, and caused the bootstrap to die while compiling glibc. Stage1 is nice, but you need to have a lot of patience with it, though the end result is a nicely optomised system.
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> > On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Alex Snow wrote:
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> > > downloaded it, burned it, and am currently booting it.
> > > 
> > > I think i will start out with the stage 3 tarball until I learn more 
> > > about how gentoo works. then I may try stage 1 or 2.
> > > On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 
> > > at 10:28:58AM -0600, Deedra Waters wrote:
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> > > > hi alex.
> > > > You have to use the x86 experimental livecd  located here: http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/experimental/x86/livecd/livecd-2.6_11-29-200
> > > > 3.iso
> > > > 
> > > > this is pretty much a basic iso so you need to download the stage tarball of your choice seperately. The install docs will tell you how to get a stage tarball if you do not have one
> > > > 
> > > > You will need to burn the cd, then boot it. stick the cd in, start the machine, once the cd drive stops spinning, type 'gentoo speakup_synth=your_synth_here' You have about 30 seconds or so to enter this. If you do not enter that at the boot prompt, you will not have a talking install.
> > > > 
> > > > I would suggest  that you know ahead of time, what stage you want to use. It will make your life much easier in the longrun. I would also suggest that if you are new to linux and gentoo that you use the stage 3 tarball. this will make your install much quicker, and it can save you a lot of trouble in the long run, especially if you know little about CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS.
> > > > 
> > > > I'm happy to answer questions if you have them.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Alex Snow wrote:
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> > > > > Ok I'm thinking of installing gentoo on a spare box. I'v had a look at 
> > > > > the install manual and picked my install media. I think the gnome/kde 
> > > > > livecd looks the coolist since it's got a lot of stuff on it. it's 
> > > > > either this or the regular livecd. I was just wondering if this cd has 
> > > > > speakup on it and how I would get the install started?
> > > > > any help would be apreciated.
> > > > > 
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> > > > 
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