[gentoo-user] livecd & 586 boxen

[gentoo-user] livecd & 586 boxen

[maxim wexler]

Hi everybody,

For those who haven't noticed yet the 2006.0 LiveCD
doesn't seem to work on K6's etc. A look at the docs
confirms this: "not all architectures supported".

Guess that 686 in the filename should have warned me
away. Sheesh! 75 hrs downloading for nothing!

Trying the min-install...

-Maxim

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[gentoo-user] Re: livecd & 586 boxen

[James]

maxim wexler <blissfix <at> yahoo.com> writes:

> 
> Hi everybody,
> 
> For those who haven't noticed yet the 2006.0 LiveCD
> doesn't seem to work on K6's etc. A look at the docs
> confirms this: "not all architectures supported".
> 
> Guess that 686 in the filename should have warned me
> away. Sheesh! 75 hrs downloading for nothing!

Last fall I installed a K6 200MHz amd system with
256 M of ram from a 2005 cd. It took a couple of days
to compile everything, but the stage one install was 
successful and it's a firewall today.

My suggestions would be to stip the USE flags down to the
minimum you need.


Another avenue is to install gentoo-embedded for x86:

http://www.bulah.com/embeddedgentoo.html
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/index.xml
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/gnap.xml


hth,

James

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