Oh, I saw it but now. You did a stage1/stage2 install? I think you seem to be hardcore.
With a stage3 install, you can save a lot of time. For addictional packages use the packages cd. I think there exists one with precompiled packages for i586. http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/releases/x86/current/packagecd/ Regards Bernhard Am Mittwoch 22 Juni 2005 19:37 schrieb Peter Humphrey: > Having had a good deal of success maintaining useful Gentoo systems on > this dual-Opteron workstation (with lots of help from my friends > hereabouts, of course), I thought I'd try building a minimal system on > an old P5-60 box, to be a firewall to replace an even older 486 box > running Debian in 32MB (half the 64MB of the P5-60), which has been > protecting my home mininetwork for the last five years or more. That may > have been a mistake - /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/scripts/bootstrap.sh is > still compiling glibc and it's been running for two days or more > already! I can't imagine how long 'emerge -e system' is going to take. > (I compared where it's got to in glibc with the position of the same > string in /var/log/portage/3023-glibc-2.3.5.log on this box and I found > it on line 5576 of a 37321-line log file!) At this rate I think I'll > still be poking bits around one at a time come August. > > I confess that I haven't checked the Requirements in the introductory > docs, but has anyone any more favourable experience than this to report? > Perhaps I ought to chuck all these antediluvian monstrosities in the > skip and invest a couple of hundred quid on a modern box - pity to waste > all that nice-looking hardware though. > > -- > Peter Humphrey > Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
