Walter Dnes wrote:
On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 04:36:51PM -0400, Colin wrote
Has anyone had any experience with this? Would Gentoo install and
run on this machine without any problems? It looks like it will make
an ideal server/NAT gateway/distcc node/rsync server/DHCP server/DNS
server/wireless AP for my home network.
As long as you don't try loading X/gnome/KDE you should be OK. Just
to see if it could be done, I got Gentoo working on a 400 mhz PII, Dell
Optiplex GX1. There was one weird setting I needed in /etc/make.conf
MAKEOPTS="-j1"
With the recommended -j2 setting, compiles were blowing up. Other than
that, and being a bit slow, it was OK. How large is the hard drive?
I'm not loading any DE's, just the basic server stuff like OpenSSH,
Squid, iptables, dhcpd, dnsmasq, ProFTPd, rsync, distcc, Samba,
hardened-sources, etc. This is still in the planning stages. I've read
through the Home Server HOWTO on the Gentoo Wiki site, that's where I
got this great idea.
Taking a guess here:
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fstack-protector"
CPU: Undecided, some flavor of Pentium III
RAM: 256 MB
Storage: 700 MB IDE (/boot, something else)
Storage: 18.2 GB Ultra160 SCSI (on a Series 428 MegaRAID)
OS: Windows NT Server... kidding! Gentoo!
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Colin
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