Re: [gentoo-user] howto install gentoo without a cd-rom

[John Blinka <jblinka@neo.rr.com>]

Nick Rout wrote:

>basically you need a floppy that will allow you to:
>
>1. boot with networking going
>2. create and mount your filesystems
>3. download a stage file
>4. unzip it (specifically bzip2, although if the floppy only has gzip ot
>zip you an repack your stage file)
>5. chroot into the new file system.
>
>tomsrtbt seems to fall down on the chrooting
>  
>
My experience with tomsrtbt is fairly good.  I, too, have an old laptop
(Dell XPi 150 CD) with no bootable cdrom.  The tomsrtbt floppy allowed
me to boot it, partition the disk, and to connect to the internet via a
Xircom pcmcia card.  It also allowed me to chroot to /mnt/gentoo.
For some reason which I can't explain, though, the ethernet connection
fails after the chroot.  This prevented downloading of required packages.
To solve this problem, I downloaded all the necessary packages on
another machine, exited the chrooted environment on the Dell XPi 150 CD,
brought all the packages over from the "other" machine to
/mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/distfiles via nc, then re-chrooted and continued
emergeing.

I've almost got this laptop functioning under gentoo, but the compile
times are horrendously long.  Hence this question:  Can I use distcc
to speed it up?  I have 3 other machines already using distcc, but they
are more modern; their /etc/make.conf contains:

CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"

whereas the Dell XPi 150 CD contains:

CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i586 -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i386-pc-linux-gnu"

Do these differences prevent the Dell XPi 150 CD from being able
to use the distcc results from the other machines?

John
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