Re: [gentoo-user] [Offtopic] Lightweight server distro for an old motherboard

[Peter Humphrey]

On Wednesday 29 August 2012 04:41:54 Andrew Lowe wrote:

> 	It had Gentoo on it for ages, and has not been updated in ages. It
> takes "years" to do anything, with respect to compiling so I'm just
> looking for a simple "point and click", binary download type of
> thingy to keep it going. I've been down the cross compile route also
> - once bitten twice shy and I don't care how many strides the dev's
> have made in recent years, I'm not trying again on principle.

Several people here run Gentoo on tiny boxes. The way I do it is to have 
a chroot on my workstation with identical portage config to the tiny box. 
First export the packages directory on the target to the chroot on the 
workstation, then chroot into it, run emerge and so on to build the 
packages. Then ssh to the target and emerge -k.

With my little Atom box the whole operation is quick and simple (since I 
learned the routine!). I'm sure it's easier and more reliable than 
cross-compiling, if only because it uses just the standard portage tools 
with no extra complications.

-- 
Rgds
Peter