Craig McLean wrote: > Pentium 100 > 24 MB RAM > 740 MB Hard Drive > 800x600 Display 256 Colours > I have a Megahertz Combo Ethernet, and Hardware Modem Card for it. > > I've toyed with going into the SUSE install with a razor, or compiling > Gentoo off target.
with gentoo 1.4 they have a precompiled set of binaries for much of the system install. they are precompiled for p3, p4, athlon, i686, and x86, which is the one I would assume you need. the gentoo install requires very little compiling, I just installed 1.4 and all I had to compile was the kernel. X and TWM (as well as other WMs) come as binaries. it has gcc 3.2. also, like you mentioned, if you have another newer machine to run gentoo, you could use it to build packages for the laptop. I once compiled gentoo for a p166 on a duron 700, worked fine, and was much faster than if I had tried to do it all on the p166. Dave
