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On Thursday 18 April 2002 19:23, Alexander Gretencord wrote: |
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> On Thursday 18 April 2002 18:40, Bjarke Sørensen wrote: |
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> > I think not, last I heard Gentoo required 64M RAM to boot the install |
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> > CD. |
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> Well you might be right did't consider the RAM but I don't know if that's |
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> true for compiling those components that run quite well on that hardware. |
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> But he can still build the system on another computer and then put it onto |
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> that comp. Running should be no problem if you don't run KDE or something |
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> like that. But you wouldn't want to compile a whole system with glibc and |
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> all on a 166MHz anyway. |
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I compiled everything on a p60 with 16mb of memory. Ok, it takes ages, but it |
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does work. I didn't boot the cd though, as the system cannot boot from cd, |
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but I don't believe there are any real memory requirements on the install. |
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Just don't forget to make a BIG swapspace if you install on a slow computer |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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