yes thats the procedure, not tried it myself. A useful project for a wet weekend.
you can do it on any linux system, doesn't have to be a gentoo one. basically you 1. set up a new directory on your host (fast) machine, say /mnt/gentoo 2. put the stage 3 tarball for the p120 into it, and untar it. 2a optionally transfer a couple of cd's full of source files that someone has written for you into /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/distfiles/ 3. do some tricks to get /proc mounted onto /mnt/gentoo/proc (its in the install docs per the standard install) 4. chroot to the new system, ie chroot /mnt/gentoo 5. build your system with CFLAGS set for whatever the TARGET system is. you probably would want to stick with a resource friendly window manager like wmaker, fluxbox etc (lets not go to another desktop flame war! If I haven't mentioned your favourite desktop just shuddup about it!)) 6. perform some trick to get the built system (ie everything under /mnt/gentoo on the host) onto the target system for example - *tar and [b|g]zip it up on host, *boot target with install cd, *set up partitions, filesystems etc with the install cd, * setup networking, * wget the rather large tarball from host, untar it, *setup grub, check fstab etc, * cross fingers *reboot. In fact the gentoo system is originally installed from a tarball and then the rest built on the system. There are different tarballs depending how much you want to build and how much you want precompiled by the gentoo boyz. The options are stage 1 to stage 3. The above is like your own custom stage 4 or 5, but controlled by you as to what goes in and what doesn't. There, maybe i'll fork my own distro with all the latest packages and updateable like regular gentoo. trouble is it'd be a nightmare building for each target system. anyway what it really needs is an easier install , eh Rob? The other trouble is that any major updates would have to be done on the target system and i don't fancy compiling the next Xfree release on a P120 when it is released :-( Of course you may be only using the p120 as a console machine, or you may choose not to update xfree. Its a free world! Later On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 14:01:52 +1200 Yuri de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps you could borrow a grunter machine to install it on, > set the compile flags to pentium I, > then transfer the set-up to your p120. > > Could work? > > >On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 16:05, you wrote: > >> just got a pentium 120 and i want some form of linux on it. thought og > >> gentoo but not too sure about the stages. > > > >The stage[23].tar.gz files on the cdrom iso expect that you have a P II o>r > > >better machine. > -- Nick Rout Barrister & Solicitor Christchurch, NZ Ph +64 3 3798966 Fax + 64 3 3798853 http://www.rout.co.nz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
