From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DuqUa-0003T4-Jx for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 11:42:33 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6JBeRiV030507; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 11:40:27 GMT Received: from ms-smtp-04-eri0.ohiordc.rr.com (ms-smtp-04-smtplb.ohiordc.rr.com [65.24.5.138]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6JBaosL019276 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 11:36:51 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.101] (cpe-24-93-173-154.neo.res.rr.com [24.93.173.154]) by ms-smtp-04-eri0.ohiordc.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id j6JBbjHH009416 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 07:37:46 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42DCE606.20401@neo.rr.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 07:37:42 -0400 From: John Blinka User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (X11/20050718) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] howto install gentoo without a cd-rom References: <1121760589.22717.6.camel@sf.rout.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <1121760589.22717.6.camel@sf.rout.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Archives-Salt: 9bbeaa1f-6672-4e9d-97a4-714739540fb1 X-Archives-Hash: 88dfa785e19a4ad659de4c46f4c3d15b 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list