* Mark Knecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > 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.
Interesting. For future reference how might I go about moving the portage directory? I am surprised that it would use that much space, but perhaps that is why I am seeing such a difference in space usage between this Gentoo installation and previous distros. > > 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. You would very probably be right, except that I am just trying to get a test install up to see if I even like the way it works. I am a longtime Slackware user, but I have been less happy with that distro as Gnome is hard to work with. I don't actually use Gnome, but it is important to other things and so causes me difficulties. I am a ratpoison guy myself. If I really like this I may move my main machine to it. That one is a more reasonable, though still not fast, Athlon XP 2000+ setup. The hard drive is bigger too, but I wanted to sort out where the space was going so that I would have a better understanding of what is going on. I am just not much for waste I suppose. > Hope this helps, > Mark > thanks, patrick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
