Hi, I have a rather old computer (tyan motherboard, K6 processor) which currently runs debian. I want to convert it to a gentoo box. As the system is rather old and it's disks are very small by today's standards, too, I would like to hear about your experiences with such tight situations. Some questions: 1) What's the best install route? The system is connected to the internet via ADSL & a speedtouch USB modem (works pretty good). Has the live cd the necessary kernel modules + the modem_run utility? There is no spare partition available, btw... 2) Is it a good idea to use dietlibc or ulibc instead of glibc? The PC will be a standalone machine, so neither NIS nor LDAP are a concern - classis shadow password authentication is enough. Concerning languages - I want to type in & read german texts, too - so displaying utf8 or iso-latin-0/1 texts is a must. BUT I do not care much for german man pages or error messages - they are nice, but conserving disk space & memory is more important. 3) I have a more modern machine available for pre building a custom install CD - here disk space is not so big a concern.
Any comments would be appreciated... - Wolfgang -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
