Re: [gentoo-user] Ram Problem!

[Jason Weisberger <jbdubbs@gmail.com>]

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There is absolutely no reason why you can't use the vanilla kernel.  Go
right ahead.
On Dec 24, 2012 10:08 AM, "Teodor Spæren" <teodor.spam@hotmail.com> wrote:

>  Hello!
>
> I am trying to install gentoo on an old armada m700. The specs that I
> think is relevant for this problem is the clocking speed of the cpu and the
> ram. It got 223mhz of clocking speed and 116mb ram. I have added 512mb of
> swap since I knew the ram was going to be a problem.
>
> The command I issue is: "emerge gentoo-sources" and the output of the
> command is this: http://bpaste.net/raw/66293/
>
> The only thing I can really read from the error message is that it runs
> out of ram. This surprises me because all it is really doing is moving the
> kernel sources into place? I asked around in #gentoo on irc.freenode.netand someone adviced me to turn of "MAKEOPTS="-j2" and "-pipe", but this
> doesn't fix it.
>
> The possible work around I have thought of is just getting the vanilla
> kernel  from kernel.org, but the gentoo wiki advise against it, since
> gentoo-sources is a patched kernel.
>
> This is my first post to a mailing list, so I hope it is not to bad! :D
>
> With best regards,
>    - TheRedMood
>

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