begin quote On Sun, 06 Jul 2003 23:04:24 -0400 Maxime Larocque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > > >Soon I shall be starting the process of installing Gentoo on a 133MHz > > > >comp with 80MB of RAM. Is the install process resumable? My internet > >connection, despite being an "always on" broadband connection, is > >rather unreliable (that and I want to reclaim the CD-RW once the > >process has moved past the installation of the base sytem). TIA for > >any help > > > > > Hi, > > Having done it on a 200MMX with 96MB RAM, I would say that it is > possible. Just make sure that it has enough swap space, my first > NFS-ROOT based install did not work because of this (I think so)... If > I remember well, the linking process on glibc or gcc was failing. Some general build-tips for cases such as this is to make sure you reduce MAKEOPTS to -j1, preferrably stash in a distccd there somewhere, and don't go the way of CFLAGS=-O3 (really. ) as for distfiles on a small disk, I setup a small on-demand mirror system for sources locally, which may or may not be what you want :) And to the original author with the creative signature: /me draws his Mace of Netiquette +3 and dents a wound of Subject: . //Spider -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end
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