[ltp] Gentoo on 750P

[James Knott]

Chris Schumann wrote:
> I have successfully gotten to stage2 on my ThinkPad 750P. It's currently
> working on the emerge system to get to stage3, but I thought I would post a
> benchmark.
> 
> The machine has a 33MHz 486, 36MB RAM and a 12GB 4200RPM disk. I used
> Slackware floppies to boot the system and get a PCMCIA NIC working.
> Downloaded a stage1 tarball and went from there.
> 
> After a very rare power failure, the NIC barfing and my aggressive office
> cleaning that cause another power failure, the "bootstrap.sh" process
> completed in just about 11.5 days.
> 
> distcc was considered, but I have only one other Linux machine at the
> moment, and it has a newer (hence incompatible) gcc package installed.
> 
> Any guesses as to how long emerge system will take? As a hint, "emerge
> --pretend system" took about 75 minutes.

It will probably be done, by the time the 64 bit Unix/Linux clocks roll 
over.  ;-)