gentoo question

[Collins]

On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 05:12:07 -0700 (MST)
Richard Ebling <rebling at xmission.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> [snip,snip]
> > How much of the lengthy install is
> >"babysitting time" and how much is waiting (get other work done)
> >time?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Matt
> [snip,snip]
> 

[ various stuff snipped ]

>    I probably know less about gentoo than anyone else who's commented
>    on
> this so far, but may have a useful data point.  I've just done a base
> install of gentoo on a SparcStation 20 (sun4m), single processor with
> 128Mb RAM.  I did a stage 1 install.  I don't recommend that for the
> first-time gentoo experience
> 

I agree.

> 
>    ...  If I reinstall
> this one anytime soon, I'll do a stage3 to work from, until I'm more
> familiar with the system.  

Excellent recommendation.  I've run gentoo for years.  On my 2.4Gz
machine, I can run through a base install from Stage1 in about 4 hours,
but I probably wouldn't try this on a slow machine!

> 
>     Nowadays I'm using SuSE v9.0 Pro for new installations, but still
> have an old COL 2.2 box doing service as a (local) DNS and Windows
> login server.  And a coupla FreeBSD boxes serving as good-enough
> firewalls at the moment.
> 

Nothing wrong with old technology for a stable server as long as you can
still get/build security fixes.

SUSE is making an excellent product.  I ran from a 9.0 installation for
a couple of months, and I can find few nits to pick.  The only problem I
have with SUSE is the lack (I've not found it) of a generic repository
of packages beyond the CD/DVD install base.

-- 
Collins