--- Pingveno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm running two computers in my house, one 550 MHz
> Pentium 3 and one 3
> GHz Pentium 4. The slow one is running Gentoo Linux,
> while the fast one
> is running Windows. I'd like to put together a
> LiveCD that can run
> distcc on the faster computer just via a reboot.
> There's a Knoppix mod with distcc, but apparently
> there are problems
> because of the version of gcc that Debian uses.
> Gentoo has some extra
> patches for better security, which can conflict with
> the Debian version
> of gcc.
>
> Is there a way I can build a CD with a
> Gentoo-compatible version of distcc?
>
Hi Pingveno,
Yes. An alternative would be to to run your distcc
node as a diskless node. I have my system set up so
that my diskless node shares all the same root fs as
the server except for var and etc. That way the
diskless node always have the same versions of
everything.
If you want you can also leave windows running if you
run your distcc node on a colinux kernel.
So which will it be, livecd or diskless node? You can
use catalyst to build a livecd (that's how the
official installation cds are built). I prefer to
build livecds by hand. For both my diskless node and
livecds I use a genkernel initrd that is patched to
use unionfs for copy on write functionality.
Zac
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