Re: [gentoo-user] Install Using another System

2007-06-06 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:55:35 -0400 Randy Barlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Farrell wrote: Sounds like a fun project. Have you considered trying to get it to run without a har drive at all? I bet a server could provide NFS many times

RE: [gentoo-user] Install Using another System

2007-06-05 Thread burlingk
-Original Message- From: Florian Philipp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 5:53 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Install Using another System Am Montag 04 Juni 2007 23:28 schrieb darren kirby: quoth the Randy Barlow: One

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Using another System

2007-06-05 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Montag 04 Juni 2007 23:28 schrieb darren kirby: quoth the Randy Barlow: One more question - I'd like to install Gentoo on a very old and small system that doesn't have a CD-ROM, or even an IDE cable that can connect two drives. Can I put the harddrive from that system on my normal

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Using another System

2007-06-05 Thread Randy Barlow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 darren kirby wrote: Should be OK as long as the host system is an x86. I would use very conservative CFLAGS. Your CHOST will likely need to be i386-pc-linux-gnu. There is a kernel config in Processor family that says CyrixIII/Via-C3. Is that

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Using another System

2007-06-05 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 05 June 2007 10:53:26 Florian Philipp wrote: Please note that Gentoo needs a i486 to work. No, it doesn't. It needs at least an i486 CHOST to enable nptl. While nptl is faster that linuxthreads and thus should be preferred on systems that support it, it is not required in order to

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Using another System

2007-06-05 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Dienstag 05 Juni 2007 15:32 schrieb Bo Ørsted Andresen: On Tuesday 05 June 2007 10:53:26 Florian Philipp wrote: Please note that Gentoo needs a i486 to work. No, it doesn't. It needs at least an i486 CHOST to enable nptl. While nptl is faster that linuxthreads and thus should be preferred

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Using another System

2007-06-05 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 05 June 2007 16:21:31 Florian Philipp wrote: Am Dienstag 05 Juni 2007 15:32 schrieb Bo Ørsted Andresen: On Tuesday 05 June 2007 10:53:26 Florian Philipp wrote: Please note that Gentoo needs a i486 to work. No, it doesn't. It needs at least an i486 CHOST to enable nptl. While

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Using another System

2007-06-05 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Dienstag 05 Juni 2007 16:30 schrieb Bo Ørsted Andresen: On Tuesday 05 June 2007 16:21:31 Florian Philipp wrote: Am Dienstag 05 Juni 2007 15:32 schrieb Bo Ørsted Andresen: On Tuesday 05 June 2007 10:53:26 Florian Philipp wrote: Please note that Gentoo needs a i486 to work. No, it

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Using another System

2007-06-05 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 07:58:31 -0400 Randy Barlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 darren kirby wrote: Should be OK as long as the host system is an x86. I would use very conservative CFLAGS. Your CHOST will likely need to be i386-pc-linux-gnu.

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Using another System

2007-06-05 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 05 June 2007 17:05:54 Florian Philipp wrote: Please note that Gentoo needs a i486 to work. No, it doesn't. It needs at least an i486 CHOST to enable nptl. While nptl is faster that linuxthreads and thus should be preferred on systems that support it, it is not

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Using another System

2007-06-05 Thread Randy Barlow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Farrell wrote: Sounds like a fun project. Have you considered trying to get it to run without a har drive at all? I bet a server could provide NFS many times faster than the hard drive... Yeah, old hardware is fun to tinker with :) I got

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Using another System

2007-06-04 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Randy Barlow: One more question - I'd like to install Gentoo on a very old and small system that doesn't have a CD-ROM, or even an IDE cable that can connect two drives. Can I put the harddrive from that system on my normal desktop and install as normal onto that drive? The old