Grant Edwards wrote: > I'm in the process of installing Gentoo on a rather old > machine. It's an old HP Pavilion with a 450MHz Celeron > Mendocino and 256MB of PC133 SDRAM. I'm using an nVidia PCI > FX6200 video board instead of the i810 on-board chip, and it's > got a decent hard drive (160GB). > > I was wondering if there were any particular tips/tricks for > getting the best performance out of such a machine. It's to be > used for basic word processing and a few games. Hopefully the > nVidia 6200 will allow OpenGL to run fast enough for something > like TuxRacer. > > I chose XFCE for the desktop along with both Abiword and > OpenOffice. I probably should have installed OOo from a binary > package, but I decided to build it just to see how long it > would take (so far it's at about 26 hours and counting). > >
I used to have several older puters here and what I always did was put the hard drive in my main machine, chroot in and do my installs. It has worked for me so far. I have also done my upgrades that way too. Note, this may not work if you are using a 64 bit and putting the drive in a 32 bit system. That part I have never done. Dale :-) :-)
