2015-08-04 21:28 GMT-06:00 Felix Miata <mrma...@earthlink.net>: > I really should have followed up on my installation 50 months ago at *least* > 3 years ago. I have no recollection what stopped me, unless it was a naive > choice to put it on one of my oldest slowest machines with nv11 instead of > newer Intel or ATI and bunches more CPU power. It could also at least in part > be a result of space required exceeding what I'm used to. Most of my test > installations are in 4.8G / partitions that wind up 80% full or less. This > original is on 4.8G, has only 26% free, apparently has no Xorg or KDE, and no > qlist to figure what *is* installed. > You are not going anywhere with 4.8GiB if thats all you plan to give to gentoo. Get at lest 25 to have distfiles and plenty of build space if you will try to build e.g. firefox. you can deploy gentoo on less than that but you can't build it.
Another thing I don't get, is why people keep trying to put gentoo on old slow machines to learn to use it, if they konw in advance they will have to compile, this is just voluntary PITA, personally I waited until I had at least 4 cores to try gentoo, using old hardware, means more build and maintenance time than actually getting something to work, also a VM is a bad Idea now that containers are available(getting a gentoo container with systemd, can take less than 15min using systemd-nspwan, systemd build included, and pretty much emulates a vm with way less overhead on the memory and processor, for learning gentoo purposes useful, unless OpenRC is the topic you are learning)
