most insane machine you ever installed Gentoo on ?

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I just finished compiling Gentoo from scratch using 1.1a stage1 on a !00 MHz Pentium with 128 MB ram..

So what's your peek of insanity ?

arkane · l33t Joined: 30 Apr 2002 Posts: 918 Location: Phoenix, AZ

the peak of my insanity ended in a kernel panic after trying to boot gentoo on my P-120 laptop with 32 megs.

man, am I a wildman

Hellfire · n00b Joined: 09 May 2002 Posts: 54 Location: Madison, WI

Dell XPSP100c (overclocked to 120)
64mb, 2x2.5gb drives

assuming it finishes system this month anyway...

-h

blk_jack · Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2002 4:18 pm Post subject:

p166mmx, 128mb ram.

Did you guys compile Gentoo's core applications/etc on the machine itself or did you do a harddrive swap?

nempo · Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2002 5:40 pm Post subject:

p166mmx 64MB ram, 2.5GB hdd

rizzo · Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2002 6:17 pm Post subject:

You guys give me new hope. I have a P200 w/ 64mb RAM that I was going to install Slack on. Although I may still have to because I don't have a CD-ROM on the box. Although there was a guide for doing a net install for Gentoo I believe. I think it involved making a grub boot floppy.

update it is http://www.gentoo.org/doc/altinstall.html

update 2 hmmm making that grub floppy and loopback stuff really seems like a pain in the ass. plus it made me sit and think and realize that I have a spare cd-rom lying around

james · Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2002 11:31 pm Post subject:

P200MMX 64 MB RAM 1.2 GB HD.

Took forever.......
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Just this guy, you know? · n00b Joined: 05 Jun 2002 Posts: 0 Location: Earth

Bah. That's nothing.
I installed Gentoo on an I-Opener. That there's 180MHz of IDT Winchip slowness. Admitedly it is souped-up with 128MB RAM and a 3GB hard drive. But still: the CPU sucks (not all Pentium instructions, apparently, so have to optimize for 486) and the hdd transfer rate is nothing to write home about: a kernel compile takes about 45 minutes to an hour (I think...it felt that long at least :;).

PS I cheated though: I bootstrapped and built the base system on the hdd in another machine. It would have been possible to do it without, but it has no hdd. Possible (bootp I suppose), but highly unpleasant (it would take weeks to compile anyway). Especially when you factor in trying to get it to boot WITH A USB ETHERNET ADAPTER! :;)

lain iwakura · Apprentice Joined: 09 May 2002 Posts: 176 Location: sd, ca

differnent story.

I've got an amd 1ghz proccessor -- I know, get out of here!

anyways, I used vmware under win2000 to emulate a nic connection from my dialup. the compiling wasn't a pain, of course -- just the dloading. vmware crashed a few times, too. luckily, everything went smoothly despite the crashes and many resumed dloads. took about 3 nights of dl/compiling to get a base system.

jigma · n00b Joined: 10 May 2002 Posts: 51 Location: NZ

You guys are crazy...honestly.

I told my gf that I would not install gentoo on her k6-2 350Mhz / 192M / 4Gig casue it was too slow and would take too long.

Common guys.. a P100..honestly.

Sequentious · Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2002 5:22 am Post subject:

Not my regular machine, but a P200 with 48MB of ram and a 5.2GB hard disk. That was fun.....
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gsfgf · Veteran Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 1266

VAIO F580 Laptop. Devent specs, awlful spec sheets. "Windows Compatable Sound" fuck it what's the chip.And my wonderful netcard i paywed $15 a year ago, i still don't know what chip it has. So i treaated myself to a fancy rt8139 w/ a real plug instead of dongle. WOW.

I installed FreeBSD on my P200 which i use as a server. Works fine, no X, but a server doesn't need X anyway.

lain iwakura · Apprentice Joined: 09 May 2002 Posts: 176 Location: sd, ca

dongle. (always loved that word.)

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lain iwakura · Apprentice Joined: 09 May 2002 Posts: 176 Location: sd, ca

heheh.

dongle.
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wildcard · n00b Joined: 08 Jun 2002 Posts: 55 Location: New York

100 mhz packard bell with a whopping 32megs of ram--took 28 hours to do emerge system
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rojaro · l33t Joined: 06 May 2002 Posts: 732

hi folks,

well, i've got this old asus p2b-ds board, but only one p2/333 and a p2/350 (both ecc cpu's) ... so i decided to run them both at 350mhz as there is no big diffrence between 350 and 333 ... i read on thousand place that you never ever should do such thing in an smp system, but this one actually works fine :)

511mb ram (infact, fivehundreteleven) as one of the rams is fscked ... but it's ecc so even that one still works fine anyway.

the cddrive is a pretty old Toshiba XM-6201TA drive hanging on widescsi, the boot-disk is an old IBM DDRS-39130W drive (9gb), both connected to the onbord aic-7890 controller. /home and /home/web are both really new IBM 60GB UDMA 100 drives (IC35L060AVVA07-0) connected to an Promise FastTrak TX2 (PDC20268) controller.

The Soundcard is one very shitty OPTI ISA card which i don't use at all, but i had it lying around so i put it into the machine.

there is also a cheap rtl8139a noname networkcard inside, as well as an 3c905 combo board and a 3c900.

finally there's an old cisco1003 connected to the machine providing isdn dial-in (and callback for my notebook) and another noname 33.6k modem isa card providing well modemdialin, voicemailbox and fax functions.

also connected to the machine via serial and powercables is one nice (and old) APC Smart-UPS 700 which provides power.

next and MEAN device which is connected to the second serial port is one 23 year old Ampex 230plus terminal which provides an about 13" text only display with 80x24 chars (one line, namely no.25, is reserved for terminal status displays).

ok, it's probably not the trashiest machine around, but making the whole setup work correctly took me quite some time :)
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aardvark · Guru Joined: 30 Jun 2002 Posts: 576

hmm the bootstrap was done on another machine + appx half of emerge system.But the rest was done on the p133 with a whopping 24 mb ram. That olde quantum fireball was having the swapping time of its life and it survived too (emerge crashed once because I don't have the cpu fan on normally and it overheated,,, after 3 hours

)

Runs very smooth and only has downtime when adsl screws up again.

fsck_ms · Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 11:52 pm Post subject:

A 200 mhz powermac 7300, built completely on the machine from stage 1. With xfs. Oh, AND I did it all on a 56K.
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rac · Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2002 12:01 am Post subject:

In the GCC 2.95 category, Pentium 133.
In the GCC 3.1 category, original K6 200.

Fortunately, I had the luxury of doing the bootstrap and getting both machines to stage 3 and beyond while in a chroot jail under Debian, so they were both usable during all that compiling.
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delta407 · Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2002 3:55 am Post subject:

Pentium 133 with a whopping -- ready for this? -- 24 MB of RAM. It idles at 9 MB used, which is quite impressive.

X runs, too, and I still have about 700 KB free. The swap is only used on things like kernel compiles (which take over an hour).
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deornoth · n00b Joined: 04 Jul 2002 Posts: 13

I'm thinking of trying it on an old AST system I own. 486SX 25MHz with an overdrive chip that supposedly makes it a 486DX4 100MHz. I think it's got either 16MB or 32MB of Ram, haven't checked it lately.

I wonder how long 'emerge kde' would take..... :twisted:

-Deornoth

delta407 · Posted: Sat Jul 06, 2002 3:13 am Post subject:

I have you all beat with the amount of RAM, don't I?

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kormoc · Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2002 1:57 am Post subject:

Sorry to burst your bubble, I have gotten x to run fine on a 486 sx 25 with 8 megs of ram!!!
It swaps like a mofo for like 10 min, and x works great until you try to run a program

Anyway, it's a router now for a friend's house and I wanted to try and get x working, took 2 weeks to compile just x, never did add a window manager