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Thanks fellas. |
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I'm D/L the knoppix as i write, and we'll see what happens. |
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Alex. |
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On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 5:43 AM, James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> alex stone <compose59 <at> gmail.com> writes: |
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>> So with that in mind, i have an interest in turning a very old box i |
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>> have here (pentium-mmx) into a firewall/router. |
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> Ah, I do this all the time. |
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> Use knoppix to boot your target mmx system into a viable linux. |
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> Follow the handbook and get the system so you can ssh into it. |
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> Run 'lspci' and note what hardware you have, for building a |
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> kernel later on. |
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> Once you go chroot and grab the tarballs |
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> (Code Listing 2.5: Unpacking the stage |
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> # tar xvjpf stage3-*.tar.bz2 ) |
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> (Code Listing 3.4: Extracting the Portage snapshot |
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> # tar xvjf /mnt/gentoo/portage-latest.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/gentoo/usr) |
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> Continue to follow the handbook. |
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> It's kind of funky, but, gentoo does not really support |
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> it's own install media anymore. I think it's |
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> some sort of test, to see how thick your |
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> skin is..... |
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> Understand that we now have "autobuilds" but the docs |
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> hth, |
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