From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9165 invoked by uid 1002); 7 Apr 2003 01:16:16 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 8926 invoked from network); 7 Apr 2003 01:16:11 -0000 Message-ID: <3E90D147.6050703@nagel.homeip.net> Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 03:15:51 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=FCrgen_Nagel?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401 X-Accept-Language: de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <3E90CD58.2090709@esoterica.pt> In-Reply-To: <3E90CD58.2090709@esoterica.pt> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] How to interrupt/resume? X-Archives-Salt: 0e735bb8-286a-4444-a853-bec9ae849160 X-Archives-Hash: 71b89ce01ca22802df8e08c48fdf1a94 Paulo da Silva wrote: > I am about to give gentoo a try. > Because of my relatively slow CPU, I would like to interrupt > the compilation process and be able to resume it later. > Is there a way to do that? If there are any docs where this is > described, pls just tell me how/where to get them. > > TIA That should be no problem. In your case I would deviate a bit from the usual procedure. Instead of doing an "emerge system", I'd do an "emerge -vp system" first and then emerge packet by packet. This way you can stop the process at any time and re-enter later by following the installation instructions just without creating the partitions and files. Regards, Juergen -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list