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From: "Oliver Schmidt" <oli@kernelpanic.ch>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What's the best way to install gentoo on an OLD  K6 box w/ tight memory & small disks?
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:40:14 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <33473.192.168.0.254.1169552414.squirrel@www.kernelpanic.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200701231739.36320.robin.atwood@attglobal.net>


> I have an old P2 233Mhz laptop that runs Gentoo. I build the system on a
> modern, very fast machine (specifying the right architecture) and then zipped
> up the partition up into a tarball. Then boot up the old machine with a Live
> CD and ftp over the tarball, unpack it, tweak /etc/fstab, install Grub and
> away you go!


Cool, exactly the same way I do it .... :-))
http://www.kernelpanic.ch/html/gentoo_superconcentrate.html
(tarball is just a compressed full install)

but I'm also have a concentrated short install doc
http://www.kernelpanic.ch/html/gentoo_concentrate.html

Maybe someone likes it.

Oli
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-01-23 11:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-23  8:21 [gentoo-user] What's the best way to install gentoo on an OLD K6 box w/ tight memory & small disks? Wolfgang Liebich
2007-01-23 10:39 ` Robin Atwood
2007-01-23 11:02   ` Dale
2007-01-23 11:40   ` Oliver Schmidt [this message]
2007-01-24 17:57 ` [gentoo-user] " James

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