Wow.. What a debacle!
I've spent most of my weekend compiling Gentoo on my Sun Ultra 10. Current specs for the box are UltraSparc IIi 333 MHz processor (think I got that right), 256 MB of RAM (looking to increase) and a 20 GB HD (also looking to add another). Using onboard NIC and video for the moment.
Spent pretty much all of Saturday going through the compiling of Stage 1. Doesn't looks like any problems so far. I know it was at least 10 hours of compiling before I finally went to bed, but would imagine it did probably a good 12 hours of compiling. All that for the bootstrap. lol.. It's been fun though.
Yesterday I spent a good portion of the day compiling the core OS components. Not exactly sure how long it took, but it had been running for a couple of hours before I left to go out for a while. Got home, saw that it was done, and was like "cool". Downloaded and compiled the kernel. That gave me some shitfits, so I scratched it and did it again. Didn't feel like waiting so I went to bed.
So now, as of this morning, it appears the kernel is compiled (and configured according to how I wanted it done), so we'll play with trying to finish getting it setup when I get home. I'm sure there's tons more compiling that needs to be done though, so I'm hoping to have it up and functional as an alternate desktop by Tuesday.
What a fiasco it has been. I had no idea it would take this long, but I'm learning a lot in the process, so I'm not regretting it.
Just figured I'd share. It's been quite the experience.
Just wondering how many of you Gentoo guys have compiled from Stage 1 (I used the LiveCDs), and how long it took on what kind of hardware. Just rough estimates.
Cheers!
I've spent most of my weekend compiling Gentoo on my Sun Ultra 10. Current specs for the box are UltraSparc IIi 333 MHz processor (think I got that right), 256 MB of RAM (looking to increase) and a 20 GB HD (also looking to add another). Using onboard NIC and video for the moment.
Spent pretty much all of Saturday going through the compiling of Stage 1. Doesn't looks like any problems so far. I know it was at least 10 hours of compiling before I finally went to bed, but would imagine it did probably a good 12 hours of compiling. All that for the bootstrap. lol.. It's been fun though.
Yesterday I spent a good portion of the day compiling the core OS components. Not exactly sure how long it took, but it had been running for a couple of hours before I left to go out for a while. Got home, saw that it was done, and was like "cool". Downloaded and compiled the kernel. That gave me some shitfits, so I scratched it and did it again. Didn't feel like waiting so I went to bed.
So now, as of this morning, it appears the kernel is compiled (and configured according to how I wanted it done), so we'll play with trying to finish getting it setup when I get home. I'm sure there's tons more compiling that needs to be done though, so I'm hoping to have it up and functional as an alternate desktop by Tuesday.
What a fiasco it has been. I had no idea it would take this long, but I'm learning a lot in the process, so I'm not regretting it.
Just figured I'd share. It's been quite the experience.
Just wondering how many of you Gentoo guys have compiled from Stage 1 (I used the LiveCDs), and how long it took on what kind of hardware. Just rough estimates.
Cheers!