From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kffkx-00079X-Fo for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:58:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0846AE05A4; Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:58:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from el-out-1112.google.com (el-out-1112.google.com [209.85.162.179]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB90AE05A4 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:58:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by el-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id z25so1138349ele.1 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:58:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=hIQ25U8zCEBaTaQhw6uFPQeI4Ef1vF7VW2JxT8+Dajo=; b=KjuegbgwGJHHdMdDju0P2E+a4rxxmhByWNp3vaM4ZIuJjTxR1PV15IaT+tyc42qjIj zyeaGVDstNBKHP0lBLlFrFBA1VWoaXEYQtUmHvYXpb3MrRnMtdjW0PHnvUNRg93qCyxM hGCO2GmSxfOzZypQ9SM6IVMP8pGBfwL6EnCC4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=Y5RYoIXGlbA6L/Lwt9H5M2oJQsRVX1HuqlK97FFz621pt1wYpqpdO46UgaYc9qdQcP XRM4QTSxAf009NTK44NAkAnFx75HOwUKCYzIZfzxGCdKz6rboiuPAorppNovx3txXfRN OluBH0qRKYwH4I2kSJX8CLlTj2xEay73gGQGI= Received: by 10.150.153.3 with SMTP id a3mr1990252ybe.189.1221591512956; Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:58:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.0.0.3? ( [41.243.197.57]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 12sm1929220qbw.2.2008.09.16.11.58.30 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:58:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with installdiscs 2007.0 and 2008.0 when installing on a K6 computer Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:58:52 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <634E5748C35AC1409E0A42352E9960EA014A62D3@atnets15pa.ww300.siemens.net> In-Reply-To: <634E5748C35AC1409E0A42352E9960EA014A62D3@atnets15pa.ww300.siemens.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200809162058.53073.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 42f130dd-1d1c-44e1-8191-d7fa35c605cb X-Archives-Hash: 00a383003197289fe7be9567452b3b57 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 -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com