> have here (pentium-mmx) into a firewall/router. > I tried a live cd, with the intent of building up a 32bit chroot in my > big box, and syncing it into the old one. (All 64bit native in the > studio boxes) > > when i inserted the live cd to begin the process, i got an error > message at boot which said (along the lines of ): > > "There is a feature missing in your CPU (0:15). and the live > cd cannot boot."
Pentium-mmx is i586, so the usual i686 livecds wont work. The install cds are called x86, so I assume that means they're i386 and should be ok, otherwise; http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml > Do i need to install an older version of Gentoo in order for > this to work? Gentoo doesn't really have versions... > Do i need to flag the boot in some way with options in order to get > this to install? > > I'm on PPTP cable with a vpn address from the provider. Will an older > version of Gentoo be capable of handling this protocol? Since gentoo doesn't have versions, you will be able to run any software that you run on any other Gentoo box.
