Doesn't 900MB seem kind of large for the basic Gentoo installation? I've installed it on a couple of my own machines, from the docs on the web site, and, from what I remember, the default installation was pretty sparse.

Also, are people basically emerging binary files here? Or, actually compiling?

From my most-recent announcement regarding Gentoo:


I could fix this by converting the disk image to use a 1k block size, but at that time I didn't want to since I was waiting for feature of UML which was going to improve disk performance and required 4k BS (but now is moot).

Does ~750meg actual used space sound a little more reasonable?

-Chris

I didn't really understand about minimum image size. I am new at this Linode thing!

I am going to go ahead and install it, then check out some of the emerged packages and see if I can prune away some of the bloat.