how long does this take to install?

elpresidente · Guest

i am installing gentoo on an old p150 and it's been working on stage 2 for something like 6 hours. is this normal? also i am installing over dsl so it's not a slow connection.

zez · Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2002 12:18 am Post subject:

Hmm, if you're at stage-2, you still need to emerge the system right? After all the source is downloaded from portage, the software in the system package gets compiled AFAIK. So most of that 6 hours is probably spent compiling system software rather than downloading.

therobot · Apprentice Joined: 07 Jun 2002 Posts: 256 Location: Canada

on a p150 its gonna take a long ass time.

elpresidente · Guest

7 hours....

fghellar · Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2002 2:26 am Post subject:

I recently installed Gentoo on a Celeron 400 MHz with 128 Mb RAM and 200 Mb swap, and I timed the install process (excluding download times).

Some results were:

bootstrap: 3h31min
emerge system: 2h15min
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taivu · n00b Joined: 20 Jun 2002 Posts: 2

PIII 450 MHz, 256 MB RAM, 257 MB swap (256 ADSL connection)

bootstrap 3h
emerge system 2h 10 min

Basic install (covered in http://www.gentoo.org/doc/build.html) was ready after 7 hours, coffee breaks and reading docs included.

emerge kde (including X) took 12 hours, give or take a minute.

delta407 · Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2002 8:52 pm Post subject:

About an hour, give or take 24 or so.

Actually, I have no idea, I just made a really freakin' huge command and left for the weekend. Didn't include time in the front, though...

Chris Hickman · Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2002 9:05 pm Post subject:

I'm running an Athlon XP 1700+ in a Soyo Dragon Plus mobo with 256mb ram/512 swap and it took half an hour to bootstrap and I think the emerge took 15-20 minutes

So I would imagine that it would take a while on a p150, seeing at my processor has a clockspeed almost 15x faster than that chip

(not trying to get in a "my processor is better than yours" pissing match, I'm far from bleeding edge, just stating the facts).

15 x 30 minutes = 7 1/2 hour bootstrap
15 x 20 minutes = 5 hour emerge

Of course, that's not going to be entirely accurate, but it might give you an idea!

Chris