On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 09:27, Alex Schuster <wo...@wonkology.org> wrote:
> Um, why do you want to use gentoo on such a system anyway? If it will be a > text-only system, being used as router or something, okay, this would > probably work, but other distros could do this as well. > I have run and mantained a Pentium 100 (yeah, I know), with 48MB of RAM (EDO) running for 2 years straight, it served DHCP, HTTP, FTP and MySQL to around 90 stations with not much traffic or requests. I strongly recomend distcc, but some packages refuse to use it (notably gcc and glibc, AFAIK) so prepare for some compile time. I recall spending 5 days in a GCC compile... Anyway, they said it couldn't be done, and I did it, lol. The old Gentoo minimal was able to boot in this system with some tricks (using a floppy to load the CDROM boot, cause obviously the BIOS was unable to boot from CD and some parameters passed to LILO disabling almost every module). Last time I tested, DSL-N was able to boot and install Gentoo with no problems in such a system. -- Daniel da Veiga
