Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ram Problem!

2012-12-25 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Dec 25, 2012 4:14 PM, "Nikos Chantziaras" wrote: > > On 24/12/12 17:05, Teodor Spæren wrote: >> >> It got 223mhz of clocking speed and 116mb ram. I have added >> 512mb of swap since I knew the ram was going to be a problem. > > > I would forget about it. It was possible in the days of GCC 3 an

[gentoo-user] Re: Ram Problem!

2012-12-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 24/12/12 17:05, Teodor Spæren wrote: It got 223mhz of clocking speed and 116mb ram. I have added 512mb of swap since I knew the ram was going to be a problem. I would forget about it. It was possible in the days of GCC 3 and 2.95. Unless you don't care that emerging a complete system will

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Ram Problem!

2012-12-24 Thread Teodor Spæren
> You may want to consider a swap file: > > http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-add-a-swap-file-howto/ I have already done this. I had some problems trying to compile gcc, so I learned it then. > NB: I don't know how well it's going to help with Gentoo. It's been close to a > decade, if not long

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ram Problem!

2012-12-24 Thread Bruce Hill
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 04:52:27PM +0100, Teodor Spæren wrote: > > That is my concern. If I get it working with a vanilla kernel, and then > booting into the system, > emerge do not work, it was all wasted. You may want to consider a swap file: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-add-a-swap-file

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Ram Problem!

2012-12-24 Thread Teodor Spæren
> From: nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt > Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Ram Problem! > Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 17:32:54 +0200 > No surprise here, from what I can see, what's happening is that *emerge* > is running out of memory, it's not a compilation, so -pipe or MAKEOPTS > wo

[gentoo-user] Re: Ram Problem!

2012-12-24 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-24, Teodor Spæren wrote: > Hello! > > I am trying to install gentoo on an old armada m700. The specs that I > think is relevant for this problem is the clocking speed of the cpu > and the ram. It got 223mhz of clocking speed and 116mb ram. I have > added 512mb of swap since I knew the r