install time

shadowoflinux · n00b Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 1

ok, i want to try out gentoo but before i begin i want to know how long it should take. i have a pentium 4 2Ghz, 365meg of ram, and a 1mbps connects that usually runs at about 30kbps on windows bout at 116kpbs anywhere else.

i want to do a stage 1 install but i dont want a desktop like gnome or kde, because i want to try out enlightenment as a wm.

can anyone help me out as to how long this should take? also any reccomendations as to a good lightweight windowmanager in favour of enlightenment would also be welcome

thanx

shadowoflinux

nixnut · Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 6:47 pm Post subject:

I have no idea how long a stage one on your machine would take. Well hours, not days for just the basic system.
Fluxbox is a very nice lightweight windowmanager imho
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F-0_ICE · l33t Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 679

i can say this: the longest parts of a stage 1 install would be the bootstrap and emerge system can't say how longf they would take as i can't do a stage 1 or 2 install meself.
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