On Apr 4, 2005 7:29 AM, Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > So distcc sounds perfect for my situation! I've got three computers, > counting the new one, connected to each other via a 10 Mbps switch. > One's my Windows box (P4C 3.0 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 512 MB swap). The > Windows box has to stay in Windows XP (SP2) to give all computers > Internet access (the Wi-Fi adapter is a "Win-NIC"). I've heard there > are Linux distros that run on top of Windows (or there's always Cygwin); > would this work?
I assume you have a running gentoo on the windoze box . I think better solution is to do a stage1 install in chroot on another, stronger box. Then tar -cfz all its contents and copy it to the P200 mmx (cd-rw || network). I did that with an old laptop P166 mmx 32 RAM and everything worked flawlessly. The chroot is running on an amd64. Both the pentium-chroot and my normal gentoo share the same portage tree (mount -o bind). It takes up to 300mb of disk storage , I'm keeping it to build upgrades from time to time as binary packages, then export the whole portage tree thru nfs (the old piece of crap doesn't even have one). I mount it thru nfs when it's needed, install new upgrades and everything is peachy as pie. Distcc wouldn't help here because it has only 32 MB of RAM :( and would swap itself to junkyard with things like psi or xorg. -- Regards Karol Krzak -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
