On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 17:29:25 +0100 Jose Gonzalez Gomez
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|     I would like to install Gentoo on an old Toshiba 300CDS with a 
| Pentium, 40Mb RAM and 2GB hard disk. The handbook mentions a minimum
| of 64Mb of memory in order to install Gentoo. Has anybody been
| successful installing Gentoo in such or a similar system?

You'll need a *lot* of swap (at least 300MBytes probably) to get away
with this. I've never tried anything this old on x86, but 64MBytes is
*really* pushing it on sparc32 systems.

You'll also run out of disc space unless you nfs /var/tmp/portage and
/usr/portage.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh
Mail:    ciaranm at gentoo.org
Web:     http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm

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