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257637 2004-08-03 08:57:00 try:
df -h
This will tell you how much room is on each partition....
You have formatted it following the documentation's recommendations, correct?


Chill. 		Chilling_Silence (9)
257638 2004-08-04 03:17:00 Thanks Chill

What should I be downloading, I have gentoo 1.4 on disk somewhere (gotta find it), but I note there is a new version on the JSG servers,

1) what exactly should I be downloading of this server,
2) during the compile stage will the install need access to the web

Thanks 		Nigel Thomson (629)
257639 2004-08-04 03:30:00 You'll be wanting:
public.planetmirror.com

^^ The x86 Minimal Install CD ^^
As well as:
public.planetmirror.com (10MB)
or:
public.planetmirror.com (89MB)

^^ Stage 1 or 3 Install Tarball, depending on how long you want to spend installing, and how optimised you want your system to be ^^

Personally if its an older system I'd grab the Live CD, boot it, begin the setup process outlined here:
www.gentoo.org
And then grab the stage 3 tarball :-)

If you really want to optimise your system you can always emerge -e world at a later date :-)

Hope this helps, let us know how you get on


Chill.

*Chills Gentoo 'rule of thumb' = Read twice, Compile once. If it still breaks take two steps backwards 		Chilling_Silence (9)
257640 2004-08-04 04:27:00 And this is where i started to lose it

> If you really want to optimise your system you can
> always emerge -e world at a later date :-)
>

so this command does what exactly, (sorry cumulative lack of sleep and too much monotonous work have reduced me to a drooling moron), I thought this command updated everything, not optimised it, or am I missing something patently obviouus

As i will when I get a minute, be using an ol P266 I want everything to run as efficently and fast as possible, hence the choice of gentoo, I assumed this meant everything would need to be stage 1, this way does sound a shade quicker I have to say, (are there speed penaties)


and on a completely different note

Where did all those other posts on this topic come from, as when I posted my previous post there were only about 3 posts before it.

Must have been cacheing the page or something 		Nigel Thomson (629)
257641 2004-08-04 04:29:00 oops that wasn't meant to sound grumpy,

It should have sounded confused

sorry all 		Nigel Thomson (629)
257642 2004-08-04 04:39:00 >
> And this is where i started to lose it
>
> > If you really want to optimise your system you can
> > always emerge -e world at a later date :-)
> >
>
> so this command does what exactly, (sorry cumulative
> lack of sleep and too much monotonous work have
> reduced me to a drooling moron), I thought this
> command updated everything, not optimised it, or am I
> missing something patently obviouus
Correct!
You use "emerge appname" to install software in Gentoo. "emerge -e world" will:
emerge = to install apps
-e = recompile application and all its dependancies
world = all software you've emerged.

> As i will when I get a minute, be using an ol P266 I
> want everything to run as efficently and fast as
> possible, hence the choice of gentoo, I assumed this
> meant everything would need to be stage 1, this way
> does sound a shade quicker I have to say, (are there
> speed penaties)
Yeah, well, stage 3 would mean you can install the system and get it up and running.
When you've emerge Xfce or whatever - Then you could go back and emerge -e world when you've specified some new CFLAGS etc.

It might just be simpler if you start from Stage1 :-)

> and on a completely different note
>
> Where did all those other posts on this topic come
> from, as when I posted my previous post there were
> only about 3 posts before it.

No idea sorry?

Hope this helps


Chill. 		Chilling_Silence (9)
257643 2004-08-05 04:05:00 Well, it is on the JSG server....
Stage Tarballs (ftp://ftp2.jetstreamgames.co.nz/gentoo/releases/x86/2004.2/stages/x86/)
LiveCD (ftp://ftp2.jetstreamgames.co.nz/gentoo/releases/x86/2004.2/livecd/)

JSG wasnt resolving for me yesterday but is now... odd....

Anyways, Im going to be setting it up on a 233Mhz w/32MB Ram today. Stage1 2004.2, going to be using love-sources (http://love-sources.org). If you dont want to compile a kernel though, you can go with genkernel which is a pretty generic kernel :-)

I'd be keen to hear how the rest of you get on :-)


Chill. 		Chilling_Silence (9)
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