[gentoo-user] What's the best way to install gentoo on an OLD K6 box w/ tight memory & small disks?

[gentoo-user] What's the best way to install gentoo on an OLD K6 box w/ tight memory & small disks?

[Wolfgang Liebich]

Hi,
I have a rather old computer (tyan motherboard, K6 processor) which
currently runs debian. I want to convert it to a gentoo box. As the
system is rather old and it's disks are very small by today's
standards, too, I would like to hear about your experiences with such
tight situations.
Some questions:
1) What's the best install route? The system is connected to the
internet via ADSL & a speedtouch USB modem (works pretty good). Has
the live cd the necessary kernel modules + the modem_run utility?
There is no spare partition available, btw...
2) Is it a good idea to use dietlibc or ulibc instead of glibc? The PC
will be a standalone machine, so neither NIS nor LDAP are a concern -
classis shadow password authentication is enough.
Concerning languages - I want to type in & read german texts, too - so
displaying utf8 or iso-latin-0/1 texts is a must. BUT I do not care
much for german man pages or error messages - they are nice, but
conserving disk space & memory is more important.
3) I have a more modern machine available for pre building a custom
install CD - here disk space is not so big a concern.

Any comments would be appreciated...
- Wolfgang
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Re: [gentoo-user] What's the best way to install gentoo on an OLD K6 box w/ tight memory & small disks?

[Robin Atwood]

On Tuesday 23 January 2007 15:21, Wolfgang Liebich wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a rather old computer (tyan motherboard, K6 processor) which
> currently runs debian. I want to convert it to a gentoo box. As the
> system is rather old and it's disks are very small by today's
> standards, too, I would like to hear about your experiences with such
> tight situations.

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!

HTH
-Robin.
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Re: [gentoo-user] What's the best way to install gentoo on an OLD K6 box w/ tight memory & small disks?

[Dale]

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Robin Atwood wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 January 2007 15:21, Wolfgang Liebich wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>> I have a rather old computer (tyan motherboard, K6 processor) which
>> currently runs debian. I want to convert it to a gentoo box. As the
>> system is rather old and it's disks are very small by today's
>> standards, too, I would like to hear about your experiences with such
>> tight situations.
>>     
>
> 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!
>
> HTH
> -Robin.
>   

You have a LAN setup, you can use distcc once you get to a point that
you can boot up the new install and install distcc.  I'm not sure if the
Gentoo CD has it installed or not.  May want to look into that.

Hope that gives you one more option to think about.

Dale

:-)  :-)  :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] What's the best way to install gentoo on an OLD K6 box w/ tight memory & small disks?

[Oliver Schmidt]

> 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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[gentoo-user] Re: What's the best way to install gentoo on an OLD K6 box w/ tight memory & small disks?

[James]

Wolfgang Liebich <Wolfgang.Liebich <at> siemens.com> writes:


> I have a rather old computer (tyan motherboard, K6 processor) which
> currently runs debian. I want to convert it to a gentoo box. As the
> system is rather old and it's disks are very small by today's
> standards, too, I would like to hear about your experiences with such
> tight situations.


Hello Wolfgang,

I believe back in December, 2006 the devs release a live CD for old
586 class machines. It would have binaries that you could install
from a liveCD:

http://www.gentoo.org/news/20061127-gwn.xml


Locate the liveCD with this and simplify the installation process.

hth,

James



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