Re: [gentoo-user] What's the best way to install gentoo on an OLD K6 box w/ tight memory & small disks?

2007-01-23 Thread Oliver Schmidt
> I have an old P2 233Mhz laptop that runs Gentoo. I build the system on a > modern, very fast machine (specifying the right architecture) and then zipped > up the partition up into a tarball. Then boot up the old machine with a Live > CD and ftp over the tarball, unpack it, tweak /etc/fstab, inst

Re: [gentoo-user] What's the best way to install gentoo on an OLD K6 box w/ tight memory & small disks?

2007-01-23 Thread Dale
Robin Atwood wrote: > On Tuesday 23 January 2007 15:21, Wolfgang Liebich wrote: > >> Hi, >> I have a rather old computer (tyan motherboard, K6 processor) which >> currently runs debian. I want to convert it to a gentoo box. As the >> system is rather old and it's disks are very small by today's

Re: [gentoo-user] What's the best way to install gentoo on an OLD K6 box w/ tight memory & small disks?

2007-01-23 Thread Robin Atwood
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 15:21, Wolfgang Liebich wrote: > Hi, > I have a rather old computer (tyan motherboard, K6 processor) which > currently runs debian. I want to convert it to a gentoo box. As the > system is rather old and it's disks are very small by today's > standards, too, I would like

[gentoo-user] What's the best way to install gentoo on an OLD K6 box w/ tight memory & small disks?

2007-01-23 Thread Wolfgang Liebich
Hi, I have a rather old computer (tyan motherboard, K6 processor) which currently runs debian. I want to convert it to a gentoo box. As the system is rather old and it's disks are very small by today's standards, too, I would like to hear about your experiences with such tight situations. Some ques