Re: Successful Alpha Install

Matt White <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.alpha
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 03:44:26PM +0100, Tavis Ormandy wrote:

> Do you have any stats on how long the bootstrap process took, eg a rough
> estimate or output from time? (I'm making a reference so new users can 
> estimate how long its going to take)

Starting from a stage3 tarball it took five or six hours. Building the 
kernel was the slowest part. Letting the emerge world update took about 
a day. (X is not installed and is masked in the make.conf file.)

> Yup, i've put this in a big Note: in the install docs, thanks.

Glad to hear it.

- Matt

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