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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> Apparently, though unproven, at 18:18 on Monday 16 May 2011, Indi did opine |
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> thusly: |
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>> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 06:10:02PM +0200, Felix Miata wrote: |
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>>> Actually after the first or 2nd or some subsequent attempt that was my |
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>>> plan. After so much time passed (days, not just hours) and I had good |
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>>> kernel, NFS, and MC that I didn't see much point delaying KDE. After the |
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>>> errors disappeared around 10 last night and I reported same here I |
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>>> started to wonder where to go next on a tired brain. I set qt3support |
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>>> emerging around that time, and more than 3 hours later and time for bed |
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>>> its hundred& some packages were still emerging. I woke up hours later |
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>>> to goto the bathroom and found that done, so set kdm to install. That |
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>>> hundred plus set of packages is still emerging now, nearly 6 hours |
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>>> later. Maybe 32 bit 1667MHz& 512M RAM is on the skimpy side for |
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>>> installing Gentoo? |
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>> Not to mention there is pretty much no way you'll be using kde on that |
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>> hardware! I'd be surprised if X would be usable on that even with blackbox |
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>> wm... |
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> This is a joke right? |
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I once ran Gentoo Linux with KDE3 on a 133Mhz machine with 256Mbs of |
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ram. It wasn't fast but it did OK. A friend used it to play cards on. |
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No internet or anything tho. |
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I did the compiling via chroot on my old rig which had a much faster CPU |
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and such. I just plugged the drive into my rig and did my thing. |
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It may be slow but it should work. Make sure you have some swap tho. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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