Peter Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.

I have had much better luck with a 120-MHz Pentium Classic with 128 MB
RAM and an external cache, but that's about the limit of what I could
possibly tolerate.  Also, on that machine (which I haven't used at all
in about a year) I started with a binary installation.

You can do what people say or, if I were doing it, I might actually
use something other than Gentoo, with primarily binary packaging.
(Ohmygod!)


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