On Tuesday 16 September 2008 19:33:28 Liebich, Wolfgang wrote: > Hi, > My computer at home is seriously old already. It has a K6 CPU, an > motherboard with VIA chips (chipset (?) VT82C598), and about 10G total hard > disk space (spread over 2 hd's - can possibly add a 3rd hd, too). I've been > using debian until now, BUT I'm less and less satisfied with that b/c of > all that extra baggage I've to use here. Maybe with a trimmed down gentoo > installation I can give the old machine a new lease on life. > My main problem here is: > - I can't use the minimal install CDs. If I try to boot from them (using > gentoo-nofb just in case, also acpi=off and nodma), the machine promptly > reboots after loading the kernel. I have sneaking suspicion that this is > because the kernel is built for i686 and above. Is this true? If yes, ... > well, is there anywhere still a mirror holding an older install CD?
I doubt it very much. My mirror at work long ago lost it's old images. But all is not lost. You can install from Debian using a stage 3 install. In essence, you will free up enough disk space, unpack an i686 stage 3 into a chroot, configure and boot into that. If that doesn't work, there's always the old stage1/2 technique, which is not supported anymore, but the docs still exist somewhere on the gentoo site. Finally, if all else fails, I have these ancient isos on my home machine: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/share/iso/gentoo/x86 $ find . -name *iso ./2005.0/gentoo-universal_2005.0.iso ./2005.0/gentoo-minimal_2005.0.iso ./2006.0/livecd-i686-installer-2006.0.iso ./2006.0/install-x86-minimal-2006.0.iso ./2006.1/livecd-i686-installer-2006.1.iso ./2007.0/livecd-amd64-installer-2007.0.iso If you have an ftp server on your network configured for upload I could be persuaded to put a copy there -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
