Re: [gentoo-server] [OT] time required to install a server

[Bastian Balthazar Bux]

Andy Dustman wrote:

>On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 21:08:10 +0100, Bastian Balthazar Bux
><bastianbalthazarbux@×××××××××.it> wrote:
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>>I'm very interested to know the medium time needed to configure some
>>kind of servers, both in man time (hours dedicated to) and real, time
>>(days).
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>Lately, to install a server, I load up a stage3 tarball, emerge world,
>do the other little odds-and-ends required to make it bootable
>(including installing kernel sources and configuring and building the
>kernel), and reboot. Then I start tweaking. I can do this in about 1-2
>hrs of wall clock time, including disk partitioning. In actual human
>time, this was probably under an hour. Overall time really depends on
>how old your stage3 tarball and portage tree are.
>
>I know I did a laptop install (GNOME) from a stage3 plus the packages
>disk, and it took about 2 hrs. 1 GHz P3, but I didn't have to compile
>very much.
>
>I have a server on the horizon for rebuilding, so I'll see if I can
>gather some data.
>
>On my desktop machine (2.0 GHz P4), emerge world -pve | genlop -p
>estimates 1 day, 6 hours, 38 minutes, which seems a little long, but
>does include some whoppers like X, GNOME, Mozilla, Firefox, MySQL,
>etc. and probably includes download times for sources.
>
>
thanks for the answer, also discovered genlop, nice :)