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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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> 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". Is |
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that what you have? If not or if you are not sure then choose plain |
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old "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 through |
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the guide that anything that requires CPU specific choices you remember to |
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select for your target, not the host. This may have a side-effect of not |
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booting whilst in the host, only when you move the HDD to the target machine. |
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Good luck! |
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-d |
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darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org |
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"...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." |
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- Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 |
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