From: Stefan Boresch <stefan@mdy.univie.ac.at>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] min RAM to get Gentoo working
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 15:26:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020220142601.GB16716@mdy.univie.ac.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020220141202.GB8884@shellak.helsinki.fi>
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 04:12:02PM +0200, Einar Karttunen wrote:
> On 20.02.02 13:59 -0000(+0000), Árni Þorvarðarson wrote:
> > I have lookt at the installation instructions but it is not mentiond what is
> > the absolout minimum amount of RAM. The reasone for my question is beacause
> > I have some old systems (486 dx2 with only 16mb of RAM) and I would like to
> > try Gentoo. I have tried out RedHat and Slackware so I have some knowled in
> A distribution like debian might be easier for a 486, but if you
> want please try gentoo out, but remember to have some other machine
> ready for compiles.
I second this. Don't even think about building on this machine. I
recently had the bootstrap step die on me (machine just froze) on a
Celeron(!) with 32MB Ram and 80 MB swap. (Compiling glibc seems to do
"awful" things). I eventually installed the machine by copying a
diskimage; now it runs great. Of course it's a long way
from a 486 to a Celeron...
Stefan
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Stefan Boresch
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University of Vienna, Waehringerstr. 17 A-1090 Vienna, Austria
Phone: -43-1-427752715 Fax: -43-1-427752790
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-20 14:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-20 13:59 [gentoo-dev] min RAM to get Gentoo working Árni Þorvarðarson
2002-02-20 14:12 ` Einar Karttunen
2002-02-20 14:26 ` Stefan Boresch [this message]
2002-02-20 14:34 ` Tod M. Neidt
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