A solution for this old computer to install it quickly is to use anothoer computer for compiling it
after just use the binary package results ! On another gentoo or any other system else, create a directory, decompress stage 1 and start an install like you will do on old machine After, just install all you want on it, so run a live on old box, prepare computer (partition), just go to before uncompress stage1, so copy you installation from other computer on it, make kernel, lilo/grub so reboot, all done you can save a lot's of time ! After all install, you want to add something, no prob, just use distcc and configure it to only use other computer to compile (not localhost :)) Well, Kde can be really fast, but you have to select package manually (don't use "kde" portage, it install lot's of think) just install all you need, one by one, konsole, kwin, konqueror ... think to clean USE for a minimalist kde install other desktop that could by good is gnome, but don't really know how to enlight it Xfce-4 is really light too, firefox could by a little be long to run (need some memory ...), with kde you have konqueror but render not really the same, you have to see Use correct compilation option: -Os -march=i386 (or i486 .. depend on exact model of computer) Gentoo could be adapt to any system I think For just fast and ultra light install on old computer, I would prefer Debian Sarge distribution, fast to install, really optimizing for small system, easy update ... It's another solution Just to know want if you want to install a gentoo to show to kid how it work, or just a fast install just to see or it work so ... Have fun On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 08:43:56AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i use xubuntu on an old laptop, and it's quite snappy. > > although i'm sure you could get snappier results with gentoo > > > > On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Karl Huysmans wrote: > > >Hi All, > > > >A friend asked me to install "some" operating system on an old Dell laptop > >he got for free. > > > >The laptop has a pentium 2 400 MHz, 6 GB HD and 256 MB RAM, and will be > >used > >by his young children. > > > >I have tried to install Edubuntu on it, looks nice, has a lot of very > >usefull stuff for kids, but it really runs too slow on this machine. > > > >So I was thinking Gentoo, optimized for PII, I guess -Os would be a good > >option for this little machine. Any thoughts anyone? > > > >What about the desktop? I guess Gnome or KDE is not really the best choice. > >But what else could I use? Of course, it's for kids, so I have to be able > >to > >make it look nice :-) What would be a good window manager? File manager? > >Other applications that help to keep it lean an fast? > > > >Anyone with any experience building such a system under Gentoo? > > > >Thank you > > > >Karl > > > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > -- Geistteufel Signature PGP : ID : 0x517215AF FingerPrint : AFAB B3CE 0ACF 2551 478B 0B73 D84B 8C6D 5172 15AF Public Key Server : hkp://subkeys.pgp.net
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