Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Pentium 75 Compiled on P4

[Nick Rout]

It works

Don't forget to run grub once its on the target machine.


On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 23:38:19 -0400
Michael Crute wrote:

> I have an ancient Pentium 1 machine sitting around and thought it would be
> neat to mess around with using it as a Postfix server on my network
> (non-production use). Anyhow the situation is that with a Pentium 1 and 32MB
> of ram this thing takes three weeks to compile Gentoo and I recently had a
> power failure after week one of the compilation (very sad). To remedy this I
> setup a chrooted environment on my P4 desktop and installed a stage 1 into
> it then proceeded to do the entire system setup (sans formatting and
> partitioning) inside this nice chrooted environment. I used CFLAGS for
> Pentium and such. As far as anyone knows, would there be any issues if I
> just bzipped up the entire directory structure on my system and after
> formatting and partition ting dropped it on the soon to be server? I can't
> see any issue but then again I have never attempted something like this. Any
> insights would be appreciated.
>
> -Mike
>
> --
> ________________________________
> Michael E. Crute
> Software Developer
> SoftGroup Development Corporation
>
> Linux, because reboots are for installing hardware.
> "In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?"

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Nick Rout <nick@×××××××.nz>

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