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On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 09:27, Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> Um, why do you want to use gentoo on such a system anyway? If it will be a |
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> text-only system, being used as router or something, okay, this would |
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> probably work, but other distros could do this as well. |
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I have run and mantained a Pentium 100 (yeah, I know), with 48MB of RAM |
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(EDO) running for 2 years straight, it served DHCP, HTTP, FTP and MySQL to |
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around 90 stations with not much traffic or requests. I strongly recomend |
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distcc, but some packages refuse to use it (notably gcc and glibc, AFAIK) so |
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prepare for some compile time. I recall spending 5 days in a GCC compile... |
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Anyway, they said it couldn't be done, and I did it, lol. |
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The old Gentoo minimal was able to boot in this system with some tricks |
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(using a floppy to load the CDROM boot, cause obviously the BIOS was unable |
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to boot from CD and some parameters passed to LILO disabling almost every |
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module). |
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Last time I tested, DSL-N was able to boot and install Gentoo with no |
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problems in such a system. |
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Daniel da Veiga |
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