Installing Gentoo 1.4 on a 1.2 gig hd

Yamakasi · Apprentice Joined: 28 Sep 2002 Posts: 201

Hi ppl,

I want to install Gentoo on a old system. I wanna make an authoritative Dns server.
I have a 1.2 gig hardisk.
My questions are:

Is it enought to install gentoo?
How big is the portage?

Thx all

frippz · Guru Joined: 22 Aug 2002 Posts: 460 Location: Sweden

I managed to install Gentoo onto a 850 MB drive. The minimum margin went down to 10 megs, so I'd say you're ok to. Might be worth mentioning that I did the install from a stage3. I think that the bootstrap process will hog more disk space.

What do you mean with how big portage is? Do you mean the size of /usr/portage/ or all the distfiles or what?

dol-sen · Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2003 5:45 am Post subject:

If you have another gentoo system then set it up as a nfs server for your /usr/portage directory. It will save more downloading and thus install faster. And yes 1.2gig is too small for a stage1 install.
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rbacon2 · n00b Joined: 19 Sep 2002 Posts: 21

As a matter of interest, does anyone happen to have the output of

HeartBreakKid · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 Jun 2003 Posts: 76

How much space do you need for a stage 1 install? I have a PC that I want to do a stage1 on, but is 4G enough harddrive space?

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atac · Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2003 4:19 pm Post subject:

hmm, so i should be set with a 2 - 2,2 gb hdd if i mount /usr/portage/distfiles via nfs ?
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rbacon2 · n00b Joined: 19 Sep 2002 Posts: 21

OK, home again and I've answered my own question.

sofakng · n00b Joined: 18 Jun 2003 Posts: 16

I'm installing from stage 1.

After stage 1 (eg. bootstrap) is done, does it clean all of the temporary files out? I'm not sure that I understand why stage 3 would be any larger than stage 1.

I'm also installing Gentoo on a smaller hard drive (from stage 1) and am concerned about disk space.

Senso · Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2003 7:29 pm Post subject:

Same here, I'd like to install stage 1 on my first 'real' computer: An old P90 with a ~2GB hard drive. I'll try it as soon as I move in my new apart (about 2 weeks). I think I have 32mb RAM so it's gonna take a week.

dol-sen · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2003 5:30 am Post subject:

Stage 1 install

Senso · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2003 10:37 am Post subject:

I'm pretty sure the Gentoo stats have a few computers with less than 32 megs, though I don't remember the numbers.

Oh well, I might buy a 64megs stick, it's cheap enough.

dol-sen · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2003 1:49 pm Post subject:

GEntoo can run on less than 64 meg if installed for it. Some have gentoo running with 24 meg. It is the installer kernel that requires 64 meg of ram to work correctly. You configure your own kernel and keep it trimmed down to run without hogging the memory for itself, leaving more memory to run apps & services.

The best way to install gentoo on a computer with less than 64 meg ram is to use another computer with more memory & install it to temp relocated destination hard drive, then re-install it back to the desired computer.
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Senso · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2003 2:04 pm Post subject:

So, I could plug my 2gb HD on a faster computer, install everything and plug it back into my old 32meg RAM box. This machine doesn't have any special hardware so a generic basic kernel would work, I guess. And if there's a problem, only the kernel would need recompiling, not all the ebuilds.

That's what I'm gonna try.