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> have here (pentium-mmx) into a firewall/router. |
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> I tried a live cd, with the intent of building up a 32bit chroot in my |
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> big box, and syncing it into the old one. (All 64bit native in the |
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> studio boxes) |
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> when i inserted the live cd to begin the process, i got an error |
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> message at boot which said (along the lines of ): |
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> "There is a feature missing in your CPU (0:15). and the live |
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> cd cannot boot." |
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Pentium-mmx is i586, so the usual i686 livecds wont work. The install cds are called x86, so I assume that means they're i386 and should be ok, otherwise; |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml |
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> Do i need to install an older version of Gentoo in order for |
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> this to work? |
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Gentoo doesn't really have versions... |
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> Do i need to flag the boot in some way with options in order to get |
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> this to install? |
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> I'm on PPTP cable with a vpn address from the provider. Will an older |
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> version of Gentoo be capable of handling this protocol? |
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Since gentoo doesn't have versions, you will be able to run any software that you run on any other Gentoo box. |