Richard Lewis wrote:
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Thanks, I have looked at the handbook quite carefully, but what it doesn't really specify is approximately how long compiling might take. It only goes as far as saying that it will take a long time but thats quite difficult to interpret (in computing terms and hour is long time to perform a task in my opinion though I know from experience that compiling even quite small programs can take a while).
Peter's on the money. I recently built a Celeron 1000 desktop (KDE) for a client from a stage 1. It took about 48 hours to get KDE up-and-running. A stage 1 server build on an Athlon 2400+ with 256MB (no x, but samba, dns, dhcp, postfix, apache, mysql, etc., etc.) takes about 5 hours. We use Norton Ghost mostly (which is a PITA to use, IMO)...
Cheers, Laurie.