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