[gentoo-dev] a question about hardware in gentoo!

[gentoo-dev] a question about hardware in gentoo!

[Robert Meurlin]

hello!
i was wondering if a Pentium MMX 166 MHZ 32MB RAM about 2GB harddrive is 
working under Gentoo saw that it requires a x86 CPU  ?????

sweden robban


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Re: [gentoo-dev] a question about hardware in gentoo!

[Alexander Gretencord]

On Thursday 18 April 2002 13:50, Robert Meurlin wrote:
> i was wondering if a Pentium MMX 166 MHZ 32MB RAM about 2GB harddrive is
> working under Gentoo saw that it requires a x86 CPU  ?????

Since when is a Pentium non-x86 ? ;)

You just shouldn't use any precompiled packages that were compiled with 
optimizations for i686.

Alex

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Re: [gentoo-dev] a question about hardware in gentoo!

[Paul de Vrieze]

On Thursday 18 April 2002 13:50, Robert Meurlin wrote:
> hello!
> i was wondering if a Pentium MMX 166 MHZ 32MB RAM about 2GB harddrive is
> working under Gentoo saw that it requires a x86 CPU  ?????

Yes that will work (as long as you don't do something spectacular (full kde)).
Prepare yourself for long compile times though. And keep an eye on disk usage.

Paul

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Re: [gentoo-dev] a question about hardware in gentoo!

[Bjarke Sørensen]

On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 01:50:14PM +0200, Robert Meurlin wrote:

> hello!
> i was wondering if a Pentium MMX 166 MHZ 32MB RAM about 2GB harddrive is 
> working under Gentoo saw that it requires a x86 CPU  ?????

I think not, last I heard Gentoo required 64M RAM to boot the install
CD.

But if you can avoid that you should be home free :)

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Re: [gentoo-dev] a question about hardware in gentoo!

[Alexander Gretencord]

On Thursday 18 April 2002 18:40, Bjarke Sørensen wrote:
> I think not, last I heard Gentoo required 64M RAM to boot the install
> CD.

Well you might be right did't consider the RAM but I don't know if that's true 
for compiling those components that run quite well on that hardware. But he 
can still build the system on another computer and then put it onto that 
comp. Running should be no problem if you don't run KDE or something like 
that. But you wouldn't want to compile a whole system with glibc and all on a 
166MHz anyway.

Alex

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deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin

Re: [gentoo-dev] a question about hardware in gentoo!

[Paul de Vrieze]

On Thursday 18 April 2002 19:23, Alexander Gretencord wrote:
> On Thursday 18 April 2002 18:40, Bjarke Sørensen wrote:
> > I think not, last I heard Gentoo required 64M RAM to boot the install
> > CD.
>
> Well you might be right did't consider the RAM but I don't know if that's
> true for compiling those components that run quite well on that hardware.
> But he can still build the system on another computer and then put it onto
> that comp. Running should be no problem if you don't run KDE or something
> like that. But you wouldn't want to compile a whole system with glibc and
> all on a 166MHz anyway.
>

I compiled everything on a p60 with 16mb of memory. Ok, it takes ages, but it 
does work. I didn't boot the cd though, as the system cannot boot from cd, 
but I don't believe there are any real memory requirements on the install. 
Just don't forget to make a BIG swapspace if you install on a slow computer

Paul

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Re: [gentoo-dev] a question about hardware in gentoo!

[Alexander Gretencord]

On Friday 19 April 2002 10:34, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> I compiled everything on a p60 with 16mb of memory. Ok, it takes ages, but
> it does work. I didn't boot the cd though, as the system cannot boot from
> cd, but I don't believe there are any real memory requirements on the
> install. Just don't forget to make a BIG swapspace if you install on a slow
> computer

Yeah you can do that. But not only the CPU will be quite slow but the swap 
space is even slower on that old comp. You won't want to use swap on modern 
computers and its even worse on such old ones. Of course it may work but I'd 
strongly suggest to not compile on that machine. (Just for the speed :))

I myself have a p200 in the basement. I compiled the whole system on my 
workstation and only do the updates on the router itself which can take quite 
some time too.


Alex

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Re: [gentoo-dev] a question about hardware in gentoo!

[Christian Loitsch]

On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 02:14:06PM +0200, Alexander Gretencord wrote:
> On Friday 19 April 2002 10:34, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> > I compiled everything on a p60 with 16mb of memory. Ok, it takes ages, but
> > it does work. I didn't boot the cd though, as the system cannot boot from
> > cd, but I don't believe there are any real memory requirements on the
> > install. Just don't forget to make a BIG swapspace if you install on a slow
> > computer
> 
> Yeah you can do that. But not only the CPU will be quite slow but the swap 
> space is even slower on that old comp. You won't want to use swap on modern 
> computers and its even worse on such old ones. Of course it may work but I'd 
> strongly suggest to not compile on that machine. (Just for the speed :))
I also compiled with only 48MB ram, and for the base system (no
KDE/GNOME) it was nearly always enough (only glibc started swapping).

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