On 6/14/05, cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recently decided to test out an installation of Gentoo using the > Universal installation disc and the packages cd as I do not have a > high speed internet connection. > > I used a somewhat older machine, 450Mhz > Pentium III with 128M of RAM, and an old 3G hard drive which I had an > installation of Slackware 9.1 on.
If you were very judicious you might, possibly, somehow get it into 3GB but that would be tight. My smallest installation right now is a Pundit-R running fluxbox and MythTV. I uses about 2.4GB: myth11 root # df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 7610488 2384076 4839820 34% / none 94900 0 94900 0% /dev/shm myth11 root # You could solve about 1GB of the problem by making the portage directory be a network mount if you have NFS running somewhere. I did not do that above so really I'm only using about 1GB and making good use of a 2.5GHz Celeron D. That said I think you'd go nuts building all this stuff on a 450MHz machine. I just tried doing a Gentoo installation on an XBox a month or two ago. That was 750MHz but far less memory. Things took days due to swapping. Hope this helps, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
