Having had a good deal of success maintaining useful Gentoo systems on this dual-Opteron workstation (with lots of help from my friends hereabouts, of course), I thought I'd try building a minimal system on an old P5-60 box, to be a firewall to replace an even older 486 box running Debian in 32MB (half the 64MB of the P5-60), which has been protecting my home mininetwork for the last five years or more. That may have been a mistake - /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/scripts/bootstrap.sh is still compiling glibc and it's been running for two days or more already! I can't imagine how long 'emerge -e system' is going to take. (I compared where it's got to in glibc with the position of the same string in /var/log/portage/3023-glibc-2.3.5.log on this box and I found it on line 5576 of a 37321-line log file!) At this rate I think I'll still be poking bits around one at a time come August.
I confess that I haven't checked the Requirements in the introductory docs, but has anyone any more favourable experience than this to report? Perhaps I ought to chuck all these antediluvian monstrosities in the skip and invest a couple of hundred quid on a modern box - pity to waste all that nice-looking hardware though. -- Peter Humphrey Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93. -- [email protected] mailing list
