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PostPosted: Sat Apr 13, 2002 2:08 am    Post subject: I want the i586 iso back! Reply with quote

I just read that it took 48 hours for someone to compile the base system on a PPro 200. I have a regular Pentium 200 which means it will take even longer. Please bring back the good ol' i586 iso!
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 18, 2002 11:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes that would be nice!
I have a pentium 133 running redhat as a server here and I wont even think about emerging gentoo on it right now :(
That would take a... week?
Althoug I would like to have gentoo ont hat server though, very much sogar!

Maybe I'll compile a running server config on an athlon soon...
With a bit of hd moving around that should be possible..
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 22, 2002 8:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

An i586 iso would be great!
Does there already exist one?
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 22, 2002 8:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

rukhoven wrote:
Yes that would be nice!
I have a pentium 133
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That would take a... week?

with 64MB ram it will be doable in 5 days(depending on how well you can time your sleeping hours :twisted:

ianovich wrote:
Does there already exist one?

There used to be the 1.0rc6 i586 binary iso... That was my first install. It looks like this should be where they were located but right now there arent't any other images than the 1.0 and 1.1a i686 iso's :(
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 28, 2002 3:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I agree that a 1.1a i586-specific iso is just what Gentoo needs right now. I have a P133 that runs Red Hat, which is just a mess, and I'd certainly like to install Gentoo instead there. A week's install time is, as you say, too much, and since I have only 32 MB RAM it might get really ugly. The benefit of optimising everything to your architecture isn't really that big on slower systems, so using the ix86-iso feels really unpractical.

However, Gentoo is still a relatively new project, and I think the developers will catch up pretty soon...
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 29, 2002 9:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You can build the packages on a more powerfull computer using Pentium optimizations.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 29, 2002 9:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Are there any instructions for how to build the stage 3 tarball on a faster machine, say my PIII, and then using that for the install on my P133?
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PostPosted: Fri May 03, 2002 3:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Anonymous wrote:
Are there any instructions for how to build the stage 3 tarball on a faster machine, say my PIII, and then using that for the install on my P133?
Yeah, such instructions would be awesome. Then I could use my brand new Athlon XP 1800+ to compile the base system and create a binary package. I imagine it would be quite a bit faster then doing it on my P200.
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PostPosted: Sat May 04, 2002 7:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

hehe, I am currently installing, along with my laptop, gentoo on my p166 with 96 megs of ram. The bootstrap took 10 hours and I am currently doing emerge system.
I have it timed, so I will let you guys know if it ever finishes. But hey, my machine will have longer uptime than most windows boxes, and it is only installing :wink:
hehe.
But yes, it would be possible to build it all in your fancy athlon system,and then transfer the disk over. I was going to do that, but I don't think I am going to, since my install is almost done, only like 2 more days of compilation. It is going to be a web server, but it is mostly cause I wanted to see how long it would take.
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PostPosted: Sun May 05, 2002 12:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's the thing. I really can't "afford" to have my webserver down for such a long time. I'm running 1.0 rc6 now and I really want to upgrade.
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PostPosted: Sun May 05, 2002 11:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

what about suoolying stage3 tarballs for small machines instead of supplying them for the geeky fast athlon ones?
or perhaps users coul contrib some stage3 tarballs...
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PostPosted: Mon May 06, 2002 2:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, my P166 just finished the entire gentoo install, about 2000 minutes of compilation and bootstrap, totaluptime durring install was 1 day 21 hours 58 minutes.
You can build binarys for yourself, if you have a fast machine, change the use.conf to be for i586 or use the build binarys option of the first chhost section, I think that that will compile evreything for i686, but build binary's for 386 and up. But I am not totaly sure.:?
You can also just change the use.conf to say 586 and then build binary's from the emerge line, and then with "emerge --usepkg package" once you have the binarys built and on cd / hard drive.

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