RE: [gentoo-user] Install Using another System

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Florian Philipp [mailto:f.philipp@××××××.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 5:53 PM
> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Install Using another System
>
>
> Am Montag 04 Juni 2007 23:28 schrieb darren kirby:
> > quoth the Randy Barlow:
> > > One more question - I'd like to install Gentoo on a very old and
> > > small system that doesn't have a CD-ROM, or even an IDE
> cable that
> > > can connect two drives.  Can I put the harddrive from
> that system on
> > > my normal desktop and install as normal onto that drive?  The old
> > > system has a very different and old processor from my
> normal Gentoo
> > > system (it's a Cyrix MediaGX MMX Enhanced according to
> /proc/cpuinfo
> > > with a whopping 16 kB of cache!)  Any problems doing
> something like
> > > this on a modern system that I haven't thought about?
> > >
> > > R
> >
> > Should be OK as long as the host system is an x86. I would use very
> > conservative CFLAGS. Your CHOST will likely need to be
> > "i386-pc-linux-gnu".
> >
> > There is a kernel config in "Processor family" that says
> > "CyrixIII/Via-C3". Is that what you have? If not or if you are not
> > sure then choose plain old "386".
> >
> > Grub should work alright, as best as I can figure, as long
> as (as per
> > the
> > guide) you install it onto the HDDs MBR.
> >
> > Maybe something I am not thinking of. Just make sure that
> when going
> > through the guide that anything that requires CPU specific
> choices you
> > remember to select for your target, not the host. This may have a
> > side-effect of not booting whilst in the host, only when
> you move the
> > HDD to the target machine.
> >
> > Good luck!
> >
>
> Please note that Gentoo needs a i486 to work. You can still
> optimize your code
> for it, though. See http://gentoo-wiki.com/Safe_Cflags#i386
> for details.


There is also a flag in the same page as the Processor family for
Generic x86 support.

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