Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

[Alan McKinnon]

Apparently, though unproven, at 23:15 on Monday 16 May 2011, Dale did opine 
thusly:

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


I pondered for a long time how to reply to Indi.

I had many posts typed out, most of them rude, all of them classic Alan, but 
something held me back. Lucky it went that way, he later posted he read 
1667MHZ as 167MHz.

Amazing what a difference a "1" can make :-)



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