From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kq5sH-0003XP-IJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:53:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E1CCAE0456; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:53:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mxs2.siemens.at (mxs2.siemens.at [194.138.12.133]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51576E0456 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:53:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vies1k7x.sie.siemens.at ([158.226.129.83]) by mxs2.siemens.at with ESMTP id m9FCrBu1001061 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:53:11 +0200 Received: from atpcbygc.ram.siemens.at ([192.168.217.3]) by vies1k7x.sie.siemens.at (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.1) with ESMTP id m9FCr7O1029216 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:53:07 +0200 Received: from [158.226.25.128] (atpcbygc [158.226.25.128]) by atpcbygc.ram.siemens.at (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3538D71D6 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:53:07 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <48F5E7B2.3030404@siemens.com> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:53:06 +0200 From: Wolfgang Liebich User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20081008) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with installdiscs 2007.0 and 2008.0 when installing on a K6 computer References: <634E5748C35AC1409E0A42352E9960EA014A62D3@atnets15pa.ww300.siemens.net> <200809162058.53073.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200809162058.53073.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-purgate: clean X-purgate: This mail is considered clean X-purgate-type: clean X-purgate-Ad: Checked for Spam by eleven - eXpurgate www.eXpurgate.net X-purgate-ID: 149917::081015145311-4E2BCBA0-156B41BF/0-0/0-15 X-purgate-size: 2720/999999 X-Archives-Salt: 5d91f7d9-314a-4fad-94bb-9445a7fce289 X-Archives-Hash: 6b172597c9995178c248221ae335504e Hi, Sorry for the long delay, but I've been sick for some time, had some business trips etc... ugh. Alan McKinnon schrieb: > On Tuesday 16 September 2008 19:33:28 Liebich, Wolfgang wrote: > >> Hi, >> My computer at home is seriously old already. It has a K6 CPU, an >> motherboard with VIA chips (chipset (?) VT82C598), and about 10G total hard >> disk space (spread over 2 hd's - can possibly add a 3rd hd, too). I've been >> using debian until now, BUT I'm less and less satisfied with that b/c of >> all that extra baggage I've to use here. Maybe with a trimmed down gentoo >> installation I can give the old machine a new lease on life. >> My main problem here is: >> - I can't use the minimal install CDs. If I try to boot from them (using >> gentoo-nofb just in case, also acpi=off and nodma), the machine promptly >> reboots after loading the kernel. I have sneaking suspicion that this is >> because the kernel is built for i686 and above. Is this true? If yes, ... >> well, is there anywhere still a mirror holding an older install CD? >> > > I doubt it very much. My mirror at work long ago lost it's old images. > > But all is not lost. You can install from Debian using a stage 3 install. In > essence, you will free up enough disk space, unpack an i686 stage 3 into a > chroot, configure and boot into that. > That will be pretty hard to do. The partitioning is not very nice --- and the biggest free space on any partitions is about 500MB big. Additionally I had some troubles with my external hard drive I wanted to use as a backup drive. More about that in a later post. > If that doesn't work, there's always the old stage1/2 technique, which is not > supported anymore, but the docs still exist somewhere on the gentoo site. > > Finally, if all else fails, I have these ancient isos on my home machine: > > alan@develop ~/share/iso/gentoo/x86 $ find . -name *iso > ./2005.0/gentoo-universal_2005.0.iso > ./2005.0/gentoo-minimal_2005.0.iso > ./2006.0/livecd-i686-installer-2006.0.iso > ./2006.0/install-x86-minimal-2006.0.iso > ./2006.1/livecd-i686-installer-2006.1.iso > ./2007.0/livecd-amd64-installer-2007.0.iso > > If you have an ftp server on your network configured for upload I could be > persuaded to put a copy there > > > > Hmmm... well, I've already bought a new computer now, so the question is in some way not that relevant anymore :-) Nevertheless - maybe I will come back to your offer, to keep maybe the old codger around as a backup machine in case the new! shiny! big! one fails. Thanks for your offer -- I will try to setup an FTP server on my computer (no network at home). Ciao, Wolfgang Liebich