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Anyone hazard a guess as to the installation times for a Gentoo Stage 1 install? PC1 = Celeron 1.3, 256Mb RAM, 40Gb HD PC2 = Pentium 200, 32Mb RAM, 4Gb ...
  1. 03-30-2004 #1
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    Gentoo installation - how long?

    Anyone hazard a guess as to the installation times for a Gentoo Stage 1 install?

    PC1 = Celeron 1.3, 256Mb RAM, 40Gb HD

    PC2 = Pentium 200, 32Mb RAM, 4Gb HD

    Will be looking to install minimum + fluxbox + apache/php/mysql + browser + gimp + email. Anything else I'll add later.
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    More than forty hours I would say..
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    Quote Originally Posted by variant
    More than forty hours I would say..
    For both?

    Gearing meself up for an install within the next couple of weeks.
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    prolly close to 40 or more hours each i would think. well maybe not for both but about 40 for the P200 and prolly a good amount less for the Celeron 1.3 but im not sure cause i have never done a stage 1 install so dont take my word for it
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    Expect to take 2 days for the celeron, or even more if you haven't done one before.

    The other computer will take a very long time... actualy, can you do a stage 1 with so little RAM? Check the docs first.
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    I think you may get away with 32M ram without a gui, and conservative cflags. It will definitely swap out alot. I did it with 64M, P2 266, took about a week, and I have 56K connection.
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    Do a stage3 install (not with genkernel) which will take a couple of hours and once the system is up and running you can update it in the background while you use the system.
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