Hi, Sorry for the long delay, but I've been sick for some time, had some business trips etc... ugh. Alan McKinnon schrieb: > 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. > That will be pretty hard to do. The partitioning is not very nice --- and the biggest free space on any partitions is about 500MB big. Additionally I had some troubles with my external hard drive I wanted to use as a backup drive. More about that in a later post.
> 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 > > > > Hmmm... well, I've already bought a new computer now, so the question is in some way not that relevant anymore :-) Nevertheless - maybe I will come back to your offer, to keep maybe the old codger around as a backup machine in case the new! shiny! big! one fails. Thanks for your offer -- I will try to setup an FTP server on my computer (no network at home). Ciao, Wolfgang Liebich
