Well, you probably couldn't do a Stage 1 install. Seems like you'd have to do like a Stage 3 and use --pkgonly for things like KDE/Gnome/Xorg. That's probably obvious, but thought I'd point it out. And by using --pkgonly, you lose any speed benefits that you could have gained by compiling . . . so it's kind of a catch-22. I guess it depends on the CPU and RAM of the machine, but a Stage 1 install (w/ XF86/KDE) took 4-5 days on my machine. Philip Solo mis dos centavos . . .

Message: 1 Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 10:02:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Leo <mleo963@yahoo.com> Subject: [Wlug] another vote for a future meeting topic To: wlug@mail.wlug.org Message-ID: <20040830170237.87484.qmail@web51310.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

I have heard way to much about Gentoo to not try it out, but have also heard the install is not so easy.

Someone has mentioned it before, but how about an install fest so others can get hands on with different distro installs?

just one man's opinion....

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