1 |
On Tuesday 16 September 2008 19:33:28 Liebich, Wolfgang wrote: |
2 |
> Hi, |
3 |
> My computer at home is seriously old already. It has a K6 CPU, an |
4 |
> motherboard with VIA chips (chipset (?) VT82C598), and about 10G total hard |
5 |
> disk space (spread over 2 hd's - can possibly add a 3rd hd, too). I've been |
6 |
> using debian until now, BUT I'm less and less satisfied with that b/c of |
7 |
> all that extra baggage I've to use here. Maybe with a trimmed down gentoo |
8 |
> installation I can give the old machine a new lease on life. |
9 |
> My main problem here is: |
10 |
> - I can't use the minimal install CDs. If I try to boot from them (using |
11 |
> gentoo-nofb just in case, also acpi=off and nodma), the machine promptly |
12 |
> reboots after loading the kernel. I have sneaking suspicion that this is |
13 |
> because the kernel is built for i686 and above. Is this true? If yes, ... |
14 |
> well, is there anywhere still a mirror holding an older install CD? |
15 |
|
16 |
I doubt it very much. My mirror at work long ago lost it's old images. |
17 |
|
18 |
But all is not lost. You can install from Debian using a stage 3 install. In |
19 |
essence, you will free up enough disk space, unpack an i686 stage 3 into a |
20 |
chroot, configure and boot into that. |
21 |
|
22 |
If that doesn't work, there's always the old stage1/2 technique, which is not |
23 |
supported anymore, but the docs still exist somewhere on the gentoo site. |
24 |
|
25 |
Finally, if all else fails, I have these ancient isos on my home machine: |
26 |
|
27 |
alan@develop ~/share/iso/gentoo/x86 $ find . -name *iso |
28 |
./2005.0/gentoo-universal_2005.0.iso |
29 |
./2005.0/gentoo-minimal_2005.0.iso |
30 |
./2006.0/livecd-i686-installer-2006.0.iso |
31 |
./2006.0/install-x86-minimal-2006.0.iso |
32 |
./2006.1/livecd-i686-installer-2006.1.iso |
33 |
./2007.0/livecd-amd64-installer-2007.0.iso |
34 |
|
35 |
If you have an ftp server on your network configured for upload I could be |
36 |
persuaded to put a copy there |
37 |
|
38 |
|
39 |
|
40 |
-- |
41 |
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |