I also needed, 1GB minimum for my /var partition to compile xfree86.
With a 2GB ceiling, we are quickly running out of space here...you still might be able to pull it off though. The installation manual says 1.5 GB minimum for root partition I think.
Good luck. I recently installed it on a PowerMacintosh G3, with a 266Mhz processor, 96 MB of RAM, 3.5 GB of total Linux HD space (had to leave a 500MB partition for OS9 so I could use BootX), but it was a tight squeeze and it took a lo-o-o-o-o-o-o-ng time to compile...days and days...runs great though.
Good luck, but most of all...have fun!
- michael
On Monday, January 12, 2004, at 11:47 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
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
<mime-attachment>
-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
