Re: [gentoo-user] really old box for a firewall

2009-05-09 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 28 April 2009, Yahya Mohammad wrote: Help would be appreciated, even if it's along the lines of turning the old box into a boat anchor, as it's not fit for purpose. I would say it's more efficient to use your old box as a boat anchor :) and get a cheap low power consuming

Re: [gentoo-user] really old box for a firewall

2009-04-28 Thread Yahya Mohammad
Help would be appreciated, even if it's along the lines of turning the old box into a boat anchor, as it's not fit for purpose. I would say it's more efficient to use your old box as a boat anchor :) and get a cheap low power consuming embedded box like the popular WRT54GL or NSLU2. Those

[gentoo-user] really old box for a firewall

2009-04-27 Thread alex stone
Hello all, my first post here. Since installing Gentoo on my working audio box, i've had a good run, with no problems. (I'm a full time classical composer) The audio packages are stable and i get to work all day every day without having to spend time tweaking anything in the OS. (At last) So

Re: [gentoo-user] really old box for a firewall

2009-04-27 Thread Daniel de Oliveira
Do i need to install an older version of Gentoo in order for this to work? No, never. You can use the last portage. Do i need to flag the boot in some way with options in order to get this to install? I can be wrong, but I believe the livecd is i686, so will not run in your box (pentium-mmx

RE: [gentoo-user] really old box for a firewall

2009-04-27 Thread Adam Carter
have here (pentium-mmx) into a firewall/router. I tried a live cd, with the intent of building up a 32bit chroot in my big box, and syncing it into the old one. (All 64bit native in the studio boxes) when i inserted the live cd to begin the process, i got an error message at boot which said

Re: [gentoo-user] really old box for a firewall

2009-04-27 Thread alex stone
Thank you gentlemen. That gives me something to chase. The help is appreciated. Alex. On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 4:18 AM, Adam Carter adam.car...@optus.com.au wrote: have here (pentium-mmx) into a firewall/router. I tried a live cd, with the intent of building up a 32bit chroot in my big box,