New Server, some questions

bob_111 · Apprentice Joined: 12 Oct 2004 Posts: 155

Hey guys, im in the progress of building a server and i have some questions.

1) Its a P1 200 MMX (Oh yeah... feel that speed :twisted:

) so what tarball do i need (x86, i686 ect) ?
2) Can i use my existing instalation (AMD64 ect) and make a chroot without dloading the stage3 tarball and use my latest packages and distcc ect ?
3) Its got mandrake 10 Official on it atm. So can i do something with that like install portage, clean the system and turn it into gentoo!?

Keeping in mind im on 31.2k dialup and i kinda have bandwith issues!

.

Cheers, Mike

- bob_111

LoDown · Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 11:10 am Post subject:

i don't know about 1, but...

2) pretty sure the answer is no to that one. your best bet would be to download the stage 3 and package cds from someplace else or that is what i would suggest.

3) i have seen people discuss this in the forums before, and while people hve added portage to other distro's, it is not a undertaking for the faint of heart.
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cost · n00b Joined: 08 Jan 2006 Posts: 2

Hey guys, im in the progress of building a server and i have some questions.

1) Its a P1 200 MMX (Oh yeah... feel that speed :twisted:

) so what tarball do i need (x86, i686 ect) ?

The naming scheme for Intel's CPUs is:

x86 = everything greater 8086 (also I don't know if the x86 tarball would really run on these)

i586 = Pentium I, Pentium I MMX
i686 = Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium M
i786 = Pentium IV

2) Can i use my existing instalation (AMD64 ect) and make a chroot without dloading the stage3 tarball and use my latest packages and distcc ect ?
You optimized your existing installation for a very modern 64Bit processor. Your P1 is quite an old 32Bit processor.
The common cause for using Gentoo is that modern processors have more/faster commands than ancient models.
I think this answers your question.

3) Its got mandrake 10 Official on it atm. So can i do something with that like install portage, clean the system and turn it into gentoo!?

I wouldn't try. But you don't need to reformat your HD, so keep /home (and /root) and delete everything else and your data won't be lost.

linuxtuxhellsinki · l33t Joined: 15 Nov 2004 Posts: 700 Location: Hellsinki

Jaglover · Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 11:02 pm Post subject:

i886 = Pentium V

Suicidal · l33t Joined: 30 Jul 2003 Posts: 959 Location: /dev/null

I would reccomend that you put one of the BSD's on it, Seeing how aged the hardware is it should make a good canidate. And you will have alot less compiling to do.

If you insist on gentoo I would use the i686 tarball.

linuxtuxhellsinki · l33t Joined: 15 Nov 2004 Posts: 700 Location: Hellsinki