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On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 04:12:02PM +0200, Einar Karttunen wrote: |
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> On 20.02.02 13:59 -0000(+0000), Árni Þorvarðarson wrote: |
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> > I have lookt at the installation instructions but it is not mentiond what is |
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> > the absolout minimum amount of RAM. The reasone for my question is beacause |
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> > I have some old systems (486 dx2 with only 16mb of RAM) and I would like to |
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> > try Gentoo. I have tried out RedHat and Slackware so I have some knowled in |
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> A distribution like debian might be easier for a 486, but if you |
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> want please try gentoo out, but remember to have some other machine |
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> ready for compiles. |
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I second this. Don't even think about building on this machine. I |
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recently had the bootstrap step die on me (machine just froze) on a |
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Celeron(!) with 32MB Ram and 80 MB swap. (Compiling glibc seems to do |
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"awful" things). I eventually installed the machine by copying a |
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diskimage; now it runs great. Of course it's a long way |
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from a 486 to a Celeron... |
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Stefan |
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Stefan Boresch |
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Institute for Theoretical Chemistry and Structural Molecular Biology |
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University of Vienna, Waehringerstr. 17 A-1090 Vienna, Austria |
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Phone: -43-1-427752715 Fax: -43-1-427752790 |
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