From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QM59v-0005fX-3O for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 16 May 2011 21:17:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B73911C0D7; Mon, 16 May 2011 21:15:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vw0-f53.google.com (mail-vw0-f53.google.com [209.85.212.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 879B51C0D7 for ; Mon, 16 May 2011 21:15:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws13 with SMTP id 13so4397994vws.40 for ; Mon, 16 May 2011 14:15:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=JywpIlJCIl/JtYZkuKZfMi+xpO9RKP5JRy+r7Nrkt/s=; b=P45yAU0ntvccfAfXMnpi6uluhsSwNrhmE9v75Rh9XEXEhQyKW7mdlhvXobDdEjJF4I F0AiMzfPvPlvUKrpZ/KR9X3gwCbI9AL76dnxux6QXljuQWd9BM2Py9059PrVVUS5ea7C 0R50p/6VqUPyNasuh29X6qqS7XBzmpZnxWugg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=BfX2SZvZGzm60Qa/cYDIELGvxHsaG2pHAlhaQoYaG7mjI5j+SE1Dum9qDc/MW+cjie RgyxmUXu1M+aZxKszFrKj0rX6vHB2Jtj6+NEaB8M7fKUxRfpVifMGwz8yajLXzC80YBp Ph4qhDiUOXYhVC62BFajx1oMbeQo8pb+2RIQI= Received: by 10.52.97.166 with SMTP id eb6mr6919918vdb.185.1305580535938; Mon, 16 May 2011 14:15:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-94-119.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.94.119]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id wv7sm626184vdb.34.2011.05.16.14.15.34 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 16 May 2011 14:15:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4DD193F5.3080902@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 16:15:33 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110501 Gentoo/2.0.14 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 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] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!) References: <20110516161849.GA8525@gaurahari> <201105162042.12258.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201105162042.12258.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 820864aab00b9aba7fb21916499b18a5 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 18:18 on Monday 16 May 2011, Indi did opine > thusly: > > >> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 06:10:02PM +0200, Felix Miata wrote: >> >>> Actually after the first or 2nd or some subsequent attempt that was my >>> plan. After so much time passed (days, not just hours) and I had good >>> kernel, NFS, and MC that I didn't see much point delaying KDE. After the >>> errors disappeared around 10 last night and I reported same here I >>> started to wonder where to go next on a tired brain. I set qt3support >>> emerging around that time, and more than 3 hours later and time for bed >>> its hundred& some packages were still emerging. I woke up hours later >>> to goto the bathroom and found that done, so set kdm to install. That >>> hundred plus set of packages is still emerging now, nearly 6 hours >>> later. Maybe 32 bit 1667MHz& 512M RAM is on the skimpy side for >>> installing Gentoo? >>> >> Not to mention there is pretty much no way you'll be using kde on that >> hardware! I'd be surprised if X would be usable on that even with blackbox >> wm... >> > This is a joke right? > > I once ran Gentoo Linux with KDE3 on a 133Mhz machine with 256Mbs of ram. It wasn't fast but it did OK. A friend used it to play cards on. No internet or anything tho. I did the compiling via chroot on my old rig which had a much faster CPU and such. I just plugged the drive into my rig and did my thing. It may be slow but it should work. Make sure you have some swap tho. Dale :-) :-)