Brian Gant wrote:

>I don't think that it is that you can't, it is probably more along the
>lines of why would you want to? It may not be that bad starting from
>Stage 3 or even Stage 2, but to start from Stage 1, you would be facing
>horrendous compile times.
>
>Just for weight of comparision, the bootstrap alone took 17 hours on my
>old AMD K6 450 w/ 512 Meg o' RAM. All in all, it took me an entire
>weekend to get to a Stage 3 machine, and then the rest of the week to
>get the rest of my apps up (X, Fluxbox, xmms, etc). Unless you're a
>complete glutton for punishment, have a lot of spare time, or just
>really feel like doing it for the experience, I'd try to steer towards a
>binary distribution.
>
>Good luck and let us know how it turns out!
>
>- Brian
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Thanks for the info.
Don't worry about the compile time, my 386 is overclocked !
And with 2.6-test8, it runs at light speed !


Olivier