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.
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