I've actually installed Gentoo from a stage1 tarball onto a PII-233. It runs beautifully, but Andrew's warning is worth noting...if you don't use the pre-built packages, you're in for several days (literally) of compiling and checking on the computer every once in a while. On the bright side, when it's done, it'll be about as snappy as you can get a PII-233 to go. Be sure to set your cflags appropriately, so you get the most out of your install...
http://www.freehackers.org/gentoo/gccflags/flag_gcc3.html that has some conservative flags, slightly optimized, and known to be stable. Justin On 7/27/05, Andrew Baudouin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Joseph Fruchey wrote: > > >I've decided to try to install Gentoo on this Latitude CPi 233MHz. > >I've read the chapter in my Linux Bible on installing Gentoo and I'm > >downloading the universal ISO now. We'll see how it goes... > > > >(the other) Joey > > > >_______________________________________________ > >General mailing list > >General@brlug.net > >http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > > > I would not try that on a 233 Mhz system. If you are masochistic, at > least perform a GRP installation with mostly binary -built packages!!! > Check the 2005.0 handbook > (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2005.0/index.xml) > for more info... > > Andrew > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General@brlug.net > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20050727/563d3a4b/attachment.htm From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jul 27 16:08:01 2005 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jory A. Pratt) Date: Wed Jul 27 16:06:32 2005 Subject: [brlug-general] Wish me luck! In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Justin Trobec wrote: > http://www.freehackers.org/gentoo/gccflags/flag_gcc3.html > > that has some conservative flags, slightly optimized, and known to be > stable. > > Justin That is old and obsolete (url) Your better off getting your CFLAGS off CFLAGS CENTRAL thread in the forums these days ... compiling on a slow system no sweat distcc very powerful :) I say if you get stuck holler I am more then willing to help you out :D seeing I know the system inside out when it comes to gentoo internals. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC5/ewGDfjNg8unQIRAnLGAJ0b2+ylUwvVYoy46GisyZnlXG3OtQCeIGv7 vJl625z9ahkmU/IDgao5KUc= =S1oF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
