I want the i586 iso back!

Kennel · Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2002 2:08 am Post subject: I want the i586 iso back!

I just read that it took 48 hours for someone to compile the base system on a PPro 200. I have a regular Pentium 200 which means it will take even longer. Please bring back the good ol' i586 iso!
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rukhoven · Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2002 11:45 am Post subject:

Yes that would be nice!
I have a pentium 133 running redhat as a server here and I wont even think about emerging gentoo on it right now

That would take a... week?
Althoug I would like to have gentoo ont hat server though, very much sogar!

Maybe I'll compile a running server config on an athlon soon...
With a bit of hd moving around that should be possible..
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ianovich · n00b Joined: 22 Apr 2002 Posts: 1 Location: Belgium, Menen

An i586 iso would be great!
Does there already exist one?

gilgames · Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2002 8:43 pm Post subject:

Stygius · n00b Joined: 27 Apr 2002 Posts: 16

I agree that a 1.1a i586-specific iso is just what Gentoo needs right now. I have a P133 that runs Red Hat, which is just a mess, and I'd certainly like to install Gentoo instead there. A week's install time is, as you say, too much, and since I have only 32 MB RAM it might get really ugly. The benefit of optimising everything to your architecture isn't really that big on slower systems, so using the ix86-iso feels really unpractical.

However, Gentoo is still a relatively new project, and I think the developers will catch up pretty soon...

cedric · n00b Joined: 10 Apr 2002 Posts: 27 Location: Belgium

You can build the packages on a more powerfull computer using Pentium optimizations.

Guest · Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2002 9:54 pm Post subject:

Are there any instructions for how to build the stage 3 tarball on a faster machine, say my PIII, and then using that for the install on my P133?

Kennel · Posted: Fri May 03, 2002 3:20 pm Post subject:

squanto · Posted: Sat May 04, 2002 7:04 pm Post subject:

hehe, I am currently installing, along with my laptop, gentoo on my p166 with 96 megs of ram. The bootstrap took 10 hours and I am currently doing emerge system.
I have it timed, so I will let you guys know if it ever finishes. But hey, my machine will have longer uptime than most windows boxes, and it is only installing :wink:

hehe.
But yes, it would be possible to build it all in your fancy athlon system,and then transfer the disk over. I was going to do that, but I don't think I am going to, since my install is almost done, only like 2 more days of compilation. It is going to be a web server, but it is mostly cause I wanted to see how long it would take.
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Kennel · Posted: Sun May 05, 2002 12:29 am Post subject:

That's the thing. I really can't "afford" to have my webserver down for such a long time. I'm running 1.0 rc6 now and I really want to upgrade.
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betatim · n00b Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 28

what about suoolying stage3 tarballs for small machines instead of supplying them for the geeky fast athlon ones?
or perhaps users coul contrib some stage3 tarballs...
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squanto · Posted: Mon May 06, 2002 2:47 pm Post subject:

Well, my P166 just finished the entire gentoo install, about 2000 minutes of compilation and bootstrap, totaluptime durring install was 1 day 21 hours 58 minutes.
You can build binarys for yourself, if you have a fast machine, change the use.conf to be for i586 or use the build binarys option of the first chhost section, I think that that will compile evreything for i686, but build binary's for 386 and up. But I am not totaly sure.

You can also just change the use.conf to say 586 and then build binary's from the emerge line, and then with "emerge --usepkg package" once you have the binarys built and on cd / hard drive.

-Andrew