--- build-old.xml Fri Sep 6 17:51:08 2002 +++ build-new.xml Fri Sep 6 17:50:13 2002 @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Chris Houser Jerry Alexandratos Grant Goodyear +Eric Stockbridge These instructions step you through the process of installing Gentoo Linux 1.2. The Gentoo Linux installation process supports various installation @@ -476,7 +477,7 @@ for you. There is no reason for you to bootstrap again, unless you decided to do an emerge rsync and want to ensure that you have an up-to-the-minute current Gentoo Linux system. Most people using stage2 or stage3 tarballs will -not want to bootstrap again, since it can take up to an hour even on +not want to bootstrap again, since it can take over two hours even on very fast machines.

Now that you have a working copy of the Portage tree, people using stage1 to @@ -504,8 +505,8 @@ in /etc/make.conf (to turn off the foo USE setting.)

Now, it's time to start the "bootstrap" process. This process will last 1-2 hours depending on -how zippy your machine is; it takes about an hour on my 900Mhz AMD Athlon system. During this -time, the extracted build image will be prepped for compiling the rest of the system. The GNU +how zippy your machine is; it takes about an hour and a half on my 1200Mhz AMD Athlon system. During +this time, the extracted build image will be prepped for compiling the rest of the system. The GNU compiler suite will be built, as well as the GNU C library. These are time consuming builds and make up the bulk of the bootstrap process: