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On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 04:08:51PM -0700, drobbins@g.o wrote: |
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> On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 10:43:53PM +0000, Thomas Flavel wrote: |
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> > > 1.0_rc4-pre2 is fully compatible with all modern Intel and Intel-compatible |
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> > > processors, from the i486 on up. While 1.0_rc4-pre2 is optimized for the |
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> > > 486, Achim plans to build several different versions of 1.0_rc4 optimized for |
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> > > various processors. 1.0_rc4-pre2 has been tested on K6 systems and works |
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> > I don't understand why not a 386? I kind of expected the distcd to be 386 |
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> > binaries, and then to compile and install optimised to whatever my processor |
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> > happens to be? What am I mis-understanding? ;) |
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> > How would gentoo be installed on a 386? |
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> Very slowly. 386's and bzip2-compressed packages don't exactly get along :) |
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:) Is it feasible to have two alternate install routes; one compiling from scratch |
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and the other pre-compiled? |
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> If there's a need, we can create a 386-compatible build. |
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I'm just thinking along the lines of a minimum binary system where absolutley |
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needed, and compiling specifically everywhere else? I realise this would be |
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slow to install on slower systems, but, since we're all power users... ;) |
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Seriously though, I do think this would be a nice feature, unless there's some |
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practicality reason I'm missing. |
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> > Excellent. Roughly what size is minimum now? |
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> Do you mean the minimum HD space needed for installation? I'd guess about 400Mb |
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> of HD space. We haven't specifically attempted to "squeeze" the base install |
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> into a minimum of space. If we did, we could probably get it to live in around |
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> 250Mb, maybe less. If we started recompiling packages and linking them to a tiny |
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> libc, we might be able to get this down to <100Mb :) But, since we're all power |
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> users, this isn't something that we're focusing on right now. |
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Ok |
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- Tom |