[Sussex] Penguins...

[John]

Well, I think that mine finished (again) about 06 buffalo this morning - I
had another major snag (more later). thanks for the "--fetcholny" Steve,
that might make things a little quicker.

regards

John D.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <sdp.williams at btinternet.com>
To: <big-john at dsl.pipex.com>
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 5:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Sussex] Penguins...


> John,
>
> You're quite right - Geoff's knowledge of all things Linux is somewhere
the other side of intimidating! I always learn something new from him every
time we chat.
>
> My Dell Precision M50 is still emergeing away - has been for a good six
hours. I guess I'll come down tomorrow morning and it might have finished.
It's a PIV 1.8GHz notebook, so it's going to take a while I guess. However,
my gentoo install is pretty good so far, so I'll persist this time.
>
> The downloaded kde package was 3.1.?  so I emerged --fetchonly kde before
emergeing.
>
> If my new-found experience of emerge is correct I believe that
emerge --pkgonly kde should do the trick.
>
> But check with Geoff first!
>
> Steve W.
>
> >  from:    "John D." <big-john at dsl.pipex.com>
> >  date:    Fri, 20 Feb 2004 13:36:11
> >  to:      sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk
> >  subject: Re: [Sussex] Penguins...
> >
> > On Friday 20 February 2004 11:24, sdp.williams at btinternet.com wrote:
> > > Geoff,
> > >
> > > I managed to get over the XFree86 stumbling block on my Gentoo install
> > > following a marathon XF86Config hacking session. Now my M50 is busy:
> > >
> > > emerge --usepkg kde
> > >
> > > How long - I really don't want to ask.
> > >
> > > So far I'm very pleased with gentoo - much quicker than SuSE, oops,
Novell.
> > > Still only running in 1280x1024 res fb on boot though, but can come
back to
> > > that later.
> > >
> > > Steve W.
> >
> >
> > Steve,
> >
> > Geoff has more gentoo/linux knowledge in his little finger than I have
in the
> > whole of my brain ! :D
> >
> > But having recently re-installed gentoo, and had to do "emerge kde" (I'm
too
> > stupid to work out how to get a binary install off the second CD)
recently,
> >
> > the first time I did the emerge kde, it took nearly 15 hours - this time
(over
> > the last couple of days) I couldn't say in total, because I kept getting
> > "emerge failure"............... and it all came to a grinding halt, But
it is
> > quite a long time, using a 2 gig pentium4, 768 megs of ram to my 7200
rpm
> > 8meg buffered 120 gig hard drive with a "half a meg" adsl.
> >
> > If you have a look at the desktop configuration guide at the gentoo
site, when
> > you read to the bottom of the section about installing kde it says "have
a
> > nice nap"!
> >
> > regards
> >
> > John
> >
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