[gentoo-user] Re: How to minimise resource usage during emerge

2008-09-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Hilco Wijbenga wrote: I have a very small virtual server (just 64MB RAM, no swap) where I'm trying to install Gentoo. It fails to emerge binutils due to out of memory. According to the handbook I need 64MB RAM and 256MB swap as a bare minimum so this result is not entirely unexpected. Given

[gentoo-user] Re: How to minimise resource usage during emerge

2008-09-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [...] The only real option is to get more RAM. Another option is to emerge on another machine, build binary packages and emerge those in the embedded system.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to minimise resource usage during emerge

2008-09-13 Thread Justin
Nikos Chantziaras schrieb: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [...] The only real option is to get more RAM. Another option is to emerge on another machine, build binary packages and emerge those in the embedded system. Or mount / as nfs on another machine, chroot in that and compile. This skips

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to minimise resource usage during emerge

2008-09-13 Thread Simon
Yup, and on mine, here's what I do: I emerge all on one machine, which uses distcc on 2 other machines. Once machine1 is up2date, i rsync the binpkgs to machine2 and emerge using -k this time, all are installed by binary, those that are not found are emerged normally. Same process on last

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to minimise resource usage during emerge

2008-09-13 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 01:49, Nikos Chantziaras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hilco Wijbenga wrote: I have a very small virtual server (just 64MB RAM, no swap) where I'm trying to install Gentoo. It fails to emerge binutils due to out of memory. According to the handbook I need 64MB RAM and 256MB

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to minimise resource usage during emerge

2008-09-13 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 02:10, Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikos Chantziaras schrieb: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [...] The only real option is to get more RAM. Another option is to emerge on another machine, build binary packages and emerge those in the embedded system. Yeah, it looks

[gentoo-user] Re: How to minimise resource usage during emerge

2008-09-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Hilco Wijbenga wrote: On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 02:10, Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikos Chantziaras schrieb: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [...] The only real option is to get more RAM. Another option is to emerge on another machine, build binary packages and emerge those in the embedded