There is absolutely no reason why you can't use the vanilla kernel. Go right ahead. On Dec 24, 2012 10:08 AM, "Teodor Spæren" <teodor.s...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hello! > > I am trying to install gentoo on an old armada m700. The specs that I > think is relevant for this problem is the clocking speed of the cpu and the > ram. It got 223mhz of clocking speed and 116mb ram. I have added 512mb of > swap since I knew the ram was going to be a problem. > > The command I issue is: "emerge gentoo-sources" and the output of the > command is this: http://bpaste.net/raw/66293/ > > The only thing I can really read from the error message is that it runs > out of ram. This surprises me because all it is really doing is moving the > kernel sources into place? I asked around in #gentoo on irc.freenode.netand > someone adviced me to turn of "MAKEOPTS="-j2" and "-pipe", but this > doesn't fix it. > > The possible work around I have thought of is just getting the vanilla > kernel from kernel.org, but the gentoo wiki advise against it, since > gentoo-sources is a patched kernel. > > This is my first post to a mailing list, so I hope it is not to bad! :D > > With best regards, > - TheRedMood >
