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Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> I'm in the process of installing Gentoo on a rather old |
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> machine. It's an old HP Pavilion with a 450MHz Celeron |
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> Mendocino and 256MB of PC133 SDRAM. I'm using an nVidia PCI |
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> FX6200 video board instead of the i810 on-board chip, and it's |
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> got a decent hard drive (160GB). |
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> I was wondering if there were any particular tips/tricks for |
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> getting the best performance out of such a machine. It's to be |
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> used for basic word processing and a few games. Hopefully the |
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> nVidia 6200 will allow OpenGL to run fast enough for something |
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> like TuxRacer. |
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> I chose XFCE for the desktop along with both Abiword and |
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> OpenOffice. I probably should have installed OOo from a binary |
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> package, but I decided to build it just to see how long it |
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> would take (so far it's at about 26 hours and counting). |
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I used to have several older puters here and what I always did was put |
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the hard drive in my main machine, chroot in and do my installs. It has |
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worked for me so far. I have also done my upgrades that way too. |
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Note, this may not work if you are using a 64 bit and putting the drive |
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in a 32 bit system. That part I have never done. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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