Hi, I just finished configuring my old laptop (P1/166 with 54M memory). I built the entire filesystem on my new Athlon 3000+, which is a bit faster. If you have a fast machine with some spare diskspace, you can untar a stage3 for pentium1 in it, and then build all the stuff you need.
mkdir /oldcomputer-chroot cd /oldcomputer-chroot tar -xjf stage3-pent-1.tbz2 chroot /oldcomputer If you use a stage3 then you won't get into trouble compiling by compiling for the wrong arch. Watch the CHOST setting in make.conf, should be i586, otherwise the machine will not boot. Set the BUILDPKG feature enabled. If you're finished, boot up the old machine with a live cd. Start NFS on both machines (/etc/init.d/nfs and nfsmount) On the fast machine add /oldcomputer 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0(rw,no_root_squash) to /etc/exports, before you start NFS. (If your subnet is 192.168.0.0) mount it with: mount -t nfs SERVERIP:/oldcomputer /mnt/built (on the old computer) then copy /mnt/built to /mnt/gentoo and off you go. If you keep the chroot on the new machine, you can use it to build new packages in the future for the old machine, so that you can emerge -K ... Hope this helps... Elton On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, MARTINSON, GREGORY wrote: > > > -=-=-=-=-= > "Why am I in a handbasket and where am I headed?" > Gregg Martinson, RAHS Media > > I am going to be bullheaded and take an old machine Pentium 166 with 48 > Megs of memory and make it work as a home server (samba, cups and ftp as > well as maybe a music player). I won't be installing tons of software > on it, but I do want to eek our every last ounce of performance from an > old beast. > 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 try? > Thanks to any and all responses! > > -=-=-=-=-= > "Why am I in a handbasket and where am I headed?" > Gregg Martinson, RAHS Media > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
