Ezequiel Tolnay wrote: > Hi, I have a decent desktop with gentoo, and an old and slow > Pentium-266Mhz notebook, where I would like to install Gentoo. > > Can anyone suggest me how to use my fast processor to do the > installation, perhaps mounting a drive using NFS and doing a chroot, so > the installation does not take a whole month? I'm concerned that if I > follow the guidelines for the installation like this, the packages might > be compiled for the current processor (athlon) instead of the old > pentium (586), or pick some hardware features from the new machine and > install binaries that will finally not work.
I have a slower desktop beside my athlon, i just use to mount its root over nfs, and chroot to it, under chroot you'll be using everything from that slower conputer (/etc/make.conf, ..) so setting it right would just work as any other install I just use to do mount --bind /tmp/some_tmp_dir /mnt/other_machine_root/var/tmp/portage to avoid files during the compilation runnig thru the network over nfs, everything gets compiled on fast machine's disk and just then copied to the system on the slow machine if the slow machine has a small disk you can even do the same with /usr/portage but this way you won't be able to do anything with portage on the slower machine alone > > Thanks, > > Ezequiel Tolnay -- [email protected] mailing list
