Thank you for your right-to-the-point reply Frank!
I shall try that.

> Hi,
> 
> You want to do a complete install?
> I'd make a directory /pentium-machine, boot from the CD, mount the disk
> at /mount/gentoo and furtheron do everything due to a normal install -
> just for /mnt/gentoo/pentium-machine.
> Then I'd chroot to /mnt/gentoo/pentium-machine and finish the install
> with the environment fiddling former mentioned. Exit chroot, make a
> backup of /mnt/gentoo/pentium-machine and restore this backup to the
> Pentium.
> 
> That should be all you need.
> 
> Regards
> Frank
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 20:11, POLAX wrote:
> > I would like to use my Pentium 3 (1GHz) to compile gentoo for my Pentium
> Classic
> > (200MHz).
> > 
> > How does this work?  Won't there be problems with misdetecting the processor
> > type in /mnt/gentoo/proc as well use when using uname in the chrooted
> > environment?  Or does the CHOST setting do some hacks to get around this?
> > 

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