installing on my laptop?

SleepWalkerX · n00b Joined: 26 Jul 2005 Posts: 9

I read the handbook and it says the minimum requirements are 64 megs of ram. I only have 32, although i plan on using fluxbox. Is it still possible?

Also, another reason i plan on using gentoo is because with the current distro i'm running (Damn Small Linux) I can't configure alsa correctly to run with my sound card (Yamaha OPL3SA2 sound chip i believe). Its an ISA card. Do you think I will be able to setup the sound device easily?

xtaski · Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 2:46 am Post subject:

I would try it. I'm not sure what made the handbook say 64mb is min... Linux reqs as much as you want it too... You're going to have a long compile time - you should look into plugging into a distcc cluster...

MickKi · Veteran Joined: 08 Feb 2004 Posts: 1173

It will work almost respectably in console, emerging packages will take ages (like well more than a week for a stage 1 install, depending on your CPU) and you'll need a large swap partition (probably larger than 350MB). A lightweight GUI like blackbox will also work but opening any application or moving things around on the desktop will be a right pig! Couldn't you get hold of some second hand memory chips?
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