>> Besides my three working machines (three Pentium IV PCs, one of them >> a laptop, all running Slackware 10.2), I also have an old Pentium II >> 233 MHz / 12 GB HD / 128 MB RAM in the attic. I'd like to fiddle with LFS >> on this machine, and I wonder if the LiveCD will boot on this machine. > >I believe that the liveCD will run just fine on your P2, but I wouldn't >recommend building LFS on it since this will take a VERY long time. I >believe it takes somewhere around 5hrs to build on my Athlon XP @1.8GHz.
>Factoring the speed of your P2, I think it will take around 35hrs to build. Nikki, don't let them put you off. It's all in your expectations and what you're used to. I run LFS-4.1/Xorg-6.8.2/FF-1.0.7/KDE-3.1 on a 64MB P1-233. OK, KDE is a little slow getting started, but I find the system acceptable for SOHO work. I've been building LFS-6.1.1 on it for a couple weeks, whenever I have time. I've had a career 40 years in computing, and at one time on one of the 3 dozen or so fastest super-computers in the world--one you'd probably laugh at now. I've learned how important it is to control your computing, rather than letting it control you. Sometimes, facing a computing problem, the best thing you can do is take a break & go get a cup of tea. IBM's motto was/is "THINK", Nike's is "Just do it." There's a lesson there. Rogers' First Law of Computing: "Never 'try-out' a computer faster than the one you have to use daily." Paul Rogers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.xprt.net/~pgrogers/ http://www.geocities.com/paulgrogers/ Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
