>decide to try gentoo on a VM >build kernel from source >proceeds to take the entire day compiling When do I get to actually use the OS?
What CPU do you have?
>gentoo on VMI don't think you know what the point of gentoo is.Spoiler: it's USEflags.
>>109144291when u change yr makeopts to something not retarded
>>109144298Intel i5-7400
>>109144318You're using make -j $(nproc), right? Shouldn't take more than half an hour unless you compile a retarded number if drivers.
>>109144340I’m only using the flags recommend in the installation handbook. Does using -j make that much of a difference?
>>109144291>Put Gentoo in a VM>Don't give it enough resources>WTF why is it taking so long
>>109144366Yes, without it you're using only a single core to compile. You can replace $(nproc) with the number of cores like make -j8.
>>109144399It has 4 cores, 10 GB of RAM and 100 GB of storage.>>109144407>The MAKEOPTS variable defines how many parallel compilations should occur when installing a package. As of Portage version 3.0.31[1], if left undefined, Portage's default behavior is to set the MAKEOPTS jobs value to the same number of threads returned by nproc.
>>109144435You're using portage to compile the kernel?
>>109144291skill issue, i installed gentoo on a 25 year old laptop in two days including X and firefox, just compile faster
>>109144454I’m using emerge. I don’t know how many cores it’s actually using and I don’t really want to stop it a check when it’s been running all day.
>>109144366absolute state of /g/
>>109144456>>109144640It finished building anyway… now it’s time to configure the system.
>>109144475Did you even configure the kernel?? You know, drivers, file systems, etc. If not you'll compile EVERYTHING which is indeed going to take a while.
>>109144823>Did you ev-ACKI am following the instructions as provided in the handbook. Please refer to the handbook if you want to know how I installed the system.
>>109144870That's a new thing and it sucks and doesn't count. You didn't really install Gentoo.
>>109144291people love to say gentoo wiki is really good and it is but the install instructions are kinda not good and the formatting is a bit weird too so i dont blame you for this op>>109144870
>>109144291>try gentoo on a VMPussy. Install on bare metal or fuck off.
>>109145144>bare metalThat’s only for Debian.
>>109144725>not installing gentoo-sources>not configuring a minimal config>why are my build times taking forever
