Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with installdiscs 2007.0 and 2008.0 when installing on a K6 computer

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday 16 September 2008 19:33:28 Liebich, Wolfgang wrote:
> Hi,
> My computer at home is seriously old already. It has a K6 CPU, an
> motherboard with VIA chips (chipset (?) VT82C598), and about 10G total hard
> disk space (spread over 2 hd's - can possibly add a 3rd hd, too). I've been
> using debian until now, BUT I'm less and less satisfied with that b/c of
> all that extra baggage I've to use here. Maybe with a trimmed down gentoo
> installation I can give the old machine a new lease on life.
> My main problem here is:
> - I can't use the minimal install CDs. If I try to boot from them (using
> gentoo-nofb just in case, also acpi=off and nodma), the machine promptly
> reboots after loading the kernel. I have sneaking suspicion that this is
> because the kernel is built for i686 and above. Is this true? If yes, ...
> well, is there anywhere still a mirror holding an older install CD?

I doubt it very much. My mirror at work long ago lost it's old images.

But all is not lost. You can install from Debian using a stage 3 install. In 
essence, you will free up enough disk space, unpack an i686 stage 3 into a 
chroot, configure and boot into that.

If that doesn't work, there's always the old stage1/2 technique, which is not 
supported anymore, but the docs still exist somewhere on the gentoo site.

Finally, if all else fails, I have these ancient isos on my home machine:

alan@develop ~/share/iso/gentoo/x86 $ find . -name *iso
./2005.0/gentoo-universal_2005.0.iso
./2005.0/gentoo-minimal_2005.0.iso
./2006.0/livecd-i686-installer-2006.0.iso
./2006.0/install-x86-minimal-2006.0.iso
./2006.1/livecd-i686-installer-2006.1.iso
./2007.0/livecd-amd64-installer-2007.0.iso

If you have an ftp server on your network configured for upload I could be 
persuaded to put a copy there



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