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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