On 5/4/05, Ezequiel Tolnay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, I have a decent desktop with gentoo, and an old and slow
> Pentium-266Mhz notebook, where I would like to install Gentoo.
>
> Can anyone suggest me how to use my fast processor to do the
> installation, perhaps mounting a drive using NFS and doing a chroot, so
> the installation does not take a whole month? I'm concerned that if I
> follow the guidelines for the installation like this, the packages might
> be compiled for the current processor (athlon) instead of the old
> pentium (586), or pick some hardware features from the new machine and
> install binaries that will finally not work.
I've done gentoo install on P166 MMX 32RAM notebook. Here's what I did:
1. create a chroot from stageX on my amd64
helpful command:
mount -o bind /usr/portage /chroot-pentium/usr/portage
2. set CHOST,CFLAGS,USE and bootstrap + build the system
3. compile a kernel for the old laptop
3. tar the whole chroot and copy it over PLIP to running windoze 98
4. copy over the gentoo liveCD
5. fiddle around with loadlin and boot linux from DOS MODE (my piece
of junk doesn't have a CDROM)
6. set up partitions and untar the chroot
7. get it to boot with grub
thats pretty much it. Its been a year or so since I did that so I
don't remember any details :(
I still keep c.a. 300MB of chroot on my amd64 to build upgrades.
There's no /usr/portage on my laptop. Every package gets built by amd64
(emerge -b/-B), the portage tree is exported via samba (not NFS, cause
I need samba anywayz). Every package I install directly is binary
(emerge -K).
Everything went VEEERY SMOOTH thx to all gentoo devs ;)
PS: Take note , I had set up wrong CHOST (i386- instead i586-) and had
little trouble later on with changing it to the corect one.
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Regards
Karol Krzak
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