Stratcat wrote:

"Stig Mogensen" <norman_bates@linuxmail.org> wrote in message
news:41026a32$0$197$edfadb0f@dread11.news.tele.dk...

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I'll be giving Gentoo a try myself sometime on a spare machine once I
get some spare time...

If you plan to try out a stage1 install, it's going to taske you some
time ;o)  My Pentium4 1,6ghz sweated for some 25 hours, compiling Gentoo.

Whoa baby! If the target machine happens to have even  a minor
instability during the compilaton, I can't even imagine the grief it could
cause. I wonder if it does any type of compilation error checking, along
the way?

Oh yes.....run "mirrorselect" as described in the Gentoo
handbook(http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/index.xml), and you have a
selection of the fastest mirrors. If a package is not available at one
mirror, "emerge" simply connects to another. 

/Stig