[wplug] Whats an Installfest?

Nathan Marcus latefreight at gmail.com
Sat Sep 10 20:36:12 EDT 2005


Yup, I went to an installfest and tried to install Gentoo on an AMD64.
 It was not done even by the end, on an AMD64! Still had to work
several hours later on the weekend to finish.  I do not recommend ever
bringing Gentoo to installfest if you intend to finish it there.

On 9/10/05, Jason Carr <jason at flacid.org> wrote:
> Most distros can be installed under an hour, with Gentoo being the one
> exception.
> 
> - Jason
> 
> Scott Fones wrote:
> > Just a quick question, whats an installfest?  What I immediately went
> > with was a bunch of people sitting around installing linux.  This sounds
> > like a great idea; if you run into a problem, surely someone can help.
> > However, having just finished installing gentoo on my old dell 8200, it
> > seems too impractical.  Obviously these things wouldn't last long enough
> > to do something like that.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Scott
> >
> >
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