RE: [Sheflug] recommended 'distro' for K6 166

["Chris Johnson" <chris [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Chris, I have done an install of Gentoo Linux on a PII 266
> with 96 MB of
> RAM. It took a looong time to compile everything, but
> resulted in a very
> usable machine. I used icewm rather than kde, but installed gnome
> applications such as abiword which ran very well indeed.
> OpenOffice also
> worked well.
>
> I've just done another installation on a K5 100MHz machine
> with 32MB of
> RAM. I'm not going to ask this one to run Openoffice due to
> the RAM, but
> it runs X just fine. It took a looooooong time to compile Gentoo - in
> particular glibc took over 48 hours, cos it was running programs that
> were larger than the amount of ram available. The hdd had steam coming
> out of it!
>


Seb,
I'd forgotten you showing me that box!  Do you have to do the compile on the
box that will eventually run Gentoo or can you feed in all the correct info
and compile it on a faster box, then install on the one you actually want to
use Gentoo on?

Chris

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