On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 02:21, MARTINSON, GREGORY wrote:
> Do any of you have general tips, hints or things to avoid in
> developing such a system? For example, if I want every last ounce of
> performance should I start with bootstrapping or is that not necessary?
> Anyone know of a simple low-resource window manager? What media players
> work well with low resources? What compilation make.conf settings should
I've installed Gentoo on two low-end machines from stage 1. The best
reccomendation that I can offer is to actually take the hard drive out of the
old machine, put it into a fast one, and install the system using the faster
machine.
All you need to do is make sure that the make.conf and stuff in the chrooted
environment (on the target hard drive) match the settings you require for the
machine it will be going into.
Basically what I do is install the base system and as many of the larger
ebuilds that I can think of (servers etc) while the hard drive is in the
faster machine. Then put the hard drive into the slow machine, boot from the
livecd, and do all the post-stage3 stuff like grub, /etc/* file editing etc.
It saved me a HUGE amount of time. I'd much rather do a compile *for* a 133
*on* a 2.4ghz rather than on the 133 itself :-)
Tom
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