Re: [gentoo-user] old p 133 laptop

[Timo Boettcher]

Hi,

Nachricht vom Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2003, 08:34:06:

> someone gave me their old fujistu laptop - 133 mhz processor, 16
> megs of ram (i can buy 64 more megs for about $20), and 1.3 gig
> harddrive.  i'd like to use it for email mainly, maybe for mp3s (is
> it powerful enough?). anyway, would GRP install on this old machine,
> or is it optimized for something newer?  i see no reason to not use
> gentoo just because i'll never compile it on this relic.
I am running (and, occassionally, compiling) gentoo on a pentium-75
notebook with 14mb ram. Buying a 3,5"hdd to 2,5"hdd adaptor is
certainly a good idea, I did that for my first install, too. But I
found that for updating the machine it is much easier to have a
complete image of the laptop (use
   cd /; tar --exclude=./proc  -cv . | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "dd \
   of=/home/user/mylaptop.tar" 
to get the image on another machine) and chroot in for emerge sync and
updates, and then rsync the image (or, at least, the changes in it)
back. If you don't want to remake the image on every update, be
carefull to exclude your /home (and everything else that changed) when
rsyncing back. 

 Timo


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Re: [gentoo-user] old p 133 laptop

[Andrew Gaffney]

dave willis wrote:
someone gave me their old fujistu laptop - 133 mhz processor, 16 megs of
ram (i can buy 64 more megs for about $20), and 1.3 gig harddrive.  i'd
like to use it for email mainly, maybe for mp3s (is it powerful enough?).  
anyway, would GRP install on this old machine, or is it optimized for
something newer?  i see no reason to not use gentoo just because i'll
never compile it on this relic.
In your case, I'd recommend finding a 2.5" to 3.5" adapter for the HD from eBay. Stick the 
laptop drive in your desktop machine and compile the system there. Then put the drive back.

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