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nesbo
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 Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 12:28 pm Post subject: install gentoo on a 200 mhz laptop with 32 mb ram ? |
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hi,
does it make sence to install gentoo on a 200 mhz laptop with 32 mb ram ?
i read the install manuel and it says to install gentoo and to compile it you need min. 64 mb ram...
is it possible to install gentoo linux on this old laptop... and how long does it take ?
thx
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It will take a long time (if you do a stage 1, it could take half a week, wild guess)!
If you have a large enough hd., you should probably make at least 96 MB (preferably 128 MB) swap, and have it on constantly.
I would recommend doing a stage 3, which should take no more than a day (another wild guess).
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Malakin
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| Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 8:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Compiling stuff on that will take forever, I suggest Debian. |
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| Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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I suggest you don't install from sources. With that laptop precompiled binaries are the way to go 
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nesbo
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| Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2003 1:56 pm Post subject: |
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thx for your help,
but till now i`m not sure what to do... i already use debian on this laptop and its fine but slow (really) - and this is my main rease to use gentoo on this laptop, is there a different speed i`ve i use a gentoo stage2 to install or is debian the best choose and no different in the speed ?
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| Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2003 11:24 pm Post subject: |
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| nesbo wrote: | thx for your help,
but till now i`m not sure what to do... i already use debian on this laptop and its fine but slow (really) - and this is my main rease to use gentoo on this laptop, is there a different speed i`ve i use a gentoo stage2 to install or is debian the best choose and no different in the speed ?
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on my 233mhz 80meg ram laptop i have slackware 8.1 installed and it moves at a very decent speed, faster than win98. ive stripped it down to 17 processes, running fluxbox, Opera (web browser) and i can even get open office to run decently on it.. once you get past the OO startup. anyway, id go with slackware and then strip it even further... get more memory if possible.
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| goatdemon wrote: |
on my 233mhz 80meg ram laptop i have slackware 8.1 installed and it moves at a very decent speed, faster than win98. ive stripped it down to 17 processes, running fluxbox, Opera (web browser) and i can even get open office to run decently on it.. once you get past the OO startup. anyway, id go with slackware and then strip it even further... get more memory if possible. |
on my 150megahertz 32mb ram laptop I have slackware on it and it handles decently.
it took awhile to get it configured right(x took a month to run well) but its dandy now |
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yngwin
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Just go for it! I had no problem getting Gentoo on my PentiumMMX 166MHz with 48 MB RAM. I started with a stage3 and 150 MB swap. You should not have a problem. OK, so compiling will take some time... 
There's actually a thread on installing Gentoo on insanely minimal machines here.[/url]
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joshua
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So what are your experiences so far, did you do it?
Currently I am at installing gentoo on my old 233mmx notebook. This is the second try, the first one suscceeded, but I installed too much stuff so that the 3gb hd was full. Gnome 2 is not what You want to use on such a machine. I think, I'll better use fluxbox.
Oh, compiling from sources is bearable if you start at stage 3 and emerge distcc.
Have fun!
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Go for it. I installed from a stage 3 on a P100 with 40 MB of RAM. I used a 128 Meg swap file. The "emerge -u system" took just under 3 days to complete. Glibc alone took a day. I'm using this machine only as a web and file server and it seems to be working fine. The hardest part was finding a way to boot the darn thing. I had to use teh slackware install disks.
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| aengus9 wrote: | | Go for it. I installed from a stage 3 on a P100 with 40 MB of RAM. I used a 128 Meg swap file. |
Pentium 90, 64MB RAM, stage 1. Eight days. |
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