Hi Carl, Nachricht vom Dienstag, 16. September 2003, 05:14:48:
> Hi, folks! > Ok, here's the machine: 133 MHz (yes, *mega*, not giga or > tera) Pentium! 48 MB RAM, 1.8 GB hard drive. (This is a Compaq LTE > 5300.) > [...] > It has a floppy drive and CD drive that *SHARE* a bay, and a NetGear > Ethernet card in the PCMCIA slot. Cool box. I am running Gentoo on a Pentium 75MHz (yes, thats about half your clock) with 14MB ram (third of yours). I DID change the original 262MB HDD for a 10GB one, though. Perhaps you should think about this, too. You might want to find out if you could put any additional Ram in that thing... > [...] > Since I am fairly used to the way Gentoo works now, I am > thinking that I could install it on this laptop, either using distcc > to let my dual-P3 box do most of the building, or by using only > binary packages. On the other hand, Knoppix has its appeal as well, > since (if I could only get it to boot!) that would mean I could use > the entire HD for just swap space and personal files. Yes, running > it from a 4x CD would be slow and painful, but I wouldn't be trying > to load KDE3 or anything... just Windowmaker or icewm or something > lighter. I installed my laptop with a hdd adaptor to get the notebooks hdd working in my Athlon TB 1,2GHz. For maintaining it, I have an tar.gz image of the notebook on my dual P3 (these thinks rule, don't they? *g*), chroot in and rsync it over. > I seem to have read that it is possible to install Gentoo > from binaries only, so can it be done without installing GCC? [...] It is possible to get a Gentoo Base-system in 800MB (including GCC AND Sources (that one was a server)). You might want to go really low with your fs-blocksize (1kb or so) to minimize loss. > [...] > I *have* made a GRUB floppy, but when I boot with it and > then swap out the floppy drive for the CD drive, and try to boot a > CD with (hd1,0), it does not work. (The Knoppix floppy also does > not work -- it says it cannot find any CD drives and drops me to a > horrible shell.) If you think a shell is horrible, are you sure you are right here? > [...] > My question to those who, perhaps, have tried something > similar, is: Should I continue to struggle with Knoppix, or is there > a good way to get Gentoo on this thing? If you know Gentoo and like it, than the trouble *IS* worth it. > My thanks in advance for any suggestions! :) np Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
