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Hi, |
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Sorry for the long delay, but I've been sick for some time, had some |
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business trips etc... ugh. |
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Alan McKinnon schrieb: |
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> On Tuesday 16 September 2008 19:33:28 Liebich, Wolfgang wrote: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> My computer at home is seriously old already. It has a K6 CPU, an |
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>> motherboard with VIA chips (chipset (?) VT82C598), and about 10G total hard |
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>> disk space (spread over 2 hd's - can possibly add a 3rd hd, too). I've been |
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>> using debian until now, BUT I'm less and less satisfied with that b/c of |
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>> all that extra baggage I've to use here. Maybe with a trimmed down gentoo |
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>> installation I can give the old machine a new lease on life. |
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>> My main problem here is: |
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>> - I can't use the minimal install CDs. If I try to boot from them (using |
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>> gentoo-nofb just in case, also acpi=off and nodma), the machine promptly |
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>> reboots after loading the kernel. I have sneaking suspicion that this is |
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>> because the kernel is built for i686 and above. Is this true? If yes, ... |
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>> well, is there anywhere still a mirror holding an older install CD? |
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> I doubt it very much. My mirror at work long ago lost it's old images. |
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> But all is not lost. You can install from Debian using a stage 3 install. In |
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> essence, you will free up enough disk space, unpack an i686 stage 3 into a |
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> chroot, configure and boot into that. |
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That will be pretty hard to do. The partitioning is not very nice --- |
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and the biggest free space on any partitions is |
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about 500MB big. Additionally I had some troubles with my external hard |
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drive I wanted to use as a backup drive. |
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More about that in a later post. |
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> If that doesn't work, there's always the old stage1/2 technique, which is not |
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> supported anymore, but the docs still exist somewhere on the gentoo site. |
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> Finally, if all else fails, I have these ancient isos on my home machine: |
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> alan@develop ~/share/iso/gentoo/x86 $ find . -name *iso |
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> ./2005.0/gentoo-universal_2005.0.iso |
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> ./2005.0/gentoo-minimal_2005.0.iso |
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> ./2006.0/livecd-i686-installer-2006.0.iso |
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> ./2006.0/install-x86-minimal-2006.0.iso |
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> ./2006.1/livecd-i686-installer-2006.1.iso |
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> ./2007.0/livecd-amd64-installer-2007.0.iso |
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> If you have an ftp server on your network configured for upload I could be |
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> persuaded to put a copy there |
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Hmmm... well, I've already bought a new computer now, so the question is |
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in some way not that relevant anymore :-) |
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Nevertheless - maybe I will come back to your offer, to keep maybe the |
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old codger around as a backup machine in case the |
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new! shiny! big! one fails. |
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Thanks for your offer -- I will try to setup an FTP server on my |
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computer (no network at home). |
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Ciao, |
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Wolfgang Liebich |
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