Re: [gentoo-user] Distcc on Windows/Mac?
On Apr 4, 2005 7:29 AM, Colin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] So distcc sounds perfect for my situation! I've got three computers, counting the new one, connected to each other via a 10 Mbps switch. One's my Windows box (P4C 3.0 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 512 MB swap). The Windows box has to stay in Windows XP (SP2) to give all computers Internet access (the Wi-Fi adapter is a Win-NIC). I've heard there are Linux distros that run on top of Windows (or there's always Cygwin); would this work? I assume you have a running gentoo on the windoze box . I think better solution is to do a stage1 install in chroot on another, stronger box. Then tar -cfz all its contents and copy it to the P200 mmx (cd-rw || network). I did that with an old laptop P166 mmx 32 RAM and everything worked flawlessly. The chroot is running on an amd64. Both the pentium-chroot and my normal gentoo share the same portage tree (mount -o bind). It takes up to 300mb of disk storage , I'm keeping it to build upgrades from time to time as binary packages, then export the whole portage tree thru nfs (the old piece of crap doesn't even have one). I mount it thru nfs when it's needed, install new upgrades and everything is peachy as pie. Distcc wouldn't help here because it has only 32 MB of RAM :( and would swap itself to junkyard with things like psi or xorg. -- Regards Karol Krzak -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Distcc on Windows/Mac?
So distcc sounds perfect for my situation! I've got three computers, counting the new one, connected to each other via a 10 Mbps switch. One's my Windows box (P4C 3.0 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 512 MB swap). The Windows box has to stay in Windows XP (SP2) to give all computers Internet access (the Wi-Fi adapter is a Win-NIC). I've heard there are Linux distros that run on top of Windows (or there's always Cygwin); would this work? Have you seen this article from the Gentoo-Wiki? http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Distcc_server_on_Windows Its a pretty long, involved process, though. Ultimately, I think the idea of building the install in a chroot on another machine is the best path. I used that method to install Gentoo onto an old PII laptop, and it worked great. Just make sure to keep the install chroot around so that you can emerge updates easily. Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Distcc on Windows/Mac?
quoth the Colin: Trouble is, this computer is just a pile of components sitting on the floor, and it's using my other monitor, which I really want back (since I've spoiled myself with dual monitors). Compiling X and GNOME might give me a speed boost over the x86 binaries, but it's gonna take a long time on that old hardware, and I don't want to leave it exposed to myself, dust, falling water bottles, a cat and the countless objects I throw across the room into the garbage can. Plus I'm impatient. If you want your monitor back, boot the old machine with the live cd, and start the ssh server. Do the install from a ssh window on one of your newer machines. Won't help with speed but you'll have your monitor back and you can cut and paste from the install guide... -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org ...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected... - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 pgppqcQZtE4zm.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Distcc on Windows/Mac?
On Apr 4, 2005 5:32 PM, Colin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] No, I don't. (Wish I did, though.) Gentoo 2004.3 won't install on it (issues with the hard drive controller?). I'm downloading 2005.0 to see if that'll work. There was a tiny liveCD called distcc-knoppix. The iso was ~50MB. It booted up and started distccd immediatly. Google for it, though there may be issues with gcc version. -- Regards Karol Krzak -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Distcc on Windows/Mac?
There was a tiny liveCD called distcc-knoppix. The iso was ~50MB. It booted up and started distccd immediatly. Google for it, though there may be issues with gcc version. The last time I checked the distcc-knoppix website, the project's maintainer stated that there might be problems using it with Gentoo. I cannot remember the exact reason why, something to do with the fact that Gentoo uses a specially-patched version of gcc? Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Distcc on Windows/Mac?
On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 15:23:02 -0400 Matthew Cline wrote: There was a tiny liveCD called distcc-knoppix. The iso was ~50MB. It booted up and started distccd immediatly. Google for it, though there may be issues with gcc version. The last time I checked the distcc-knoppix website, the project's maintainer stated that there might be problems using it with Gentoo. I cannot remember the exact reason why, something to do with the fact that Gentoo uses a specially-patched version of gcc? make your own using catalyst I have done it, but it was a year ago so all versions are out of date. Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
