> -----Original Message----- > From: Florian Philipp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 5:53 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Install Using another System > > > Am Montag 04 Juni 2007 23:28 schrieb darren kirby: > > quoth the Randy Barlow: > > > One more question - I'd like to install Gentoo on a very old and > > > small system that doesn't have a CD-ROM, or even an IDE > cable that > > > can connect two drives. Can I put the harddrive from > that system on > > > my normal desktop and install as normal onto that drive? The old > > > system has a very different and old processor from my > normal Gentoo > > > system (it's a Cyrix MediaGX MMX Enhanced according to > /proc/cpuinfo > > > with a whopping 16 kB of cache!) Any problems doing > something like > > > this on a modern system that I haven't thought about? > > > > > > R > > > > Should be OK as long as the host system is an x86. I would use very > > conservative CFLAGS. Your CHOST will likely need to be > > "i386-pc-linux-gnu". > > > > There is a kernel config in "Processor family" that says > > "CyrixIII/Via-C3". Is that what you have? If not or if you are not > > sure then choose plain old "386". > > > > Grub should work alright, as best as I can figure, as long > as (as per > > the > > guide) you install it onto the HDDs MBR. > > > > Maybe something I am not thinking of. Just make sure that > when going > > through the guide that anything that requires CPU specific > choices you > > remember to select for your target, not the host. This may have a > > side-effect of not booting whilst in the host, only when > you move the > > HDD to the target machine. > > > > Good luck! > > > > Please note that Gentoo needs a i486 to work. You can still > optimize your code > for it, though. See http://gentoo-wiki.com/Safe_Cflags#i386 > for details.
There is also a flag in the same page as the Processor family for Generic x86 support. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
