alex stone <compose59 <at> gmail.com> writes:
> So with that in mind, i have an interest in turning a very old box i > have here (pentium-mmx) into a firewall/router. Ah, I do this all the time. Use knoppix to boot your target mmx system into a viable linux. Follow the handbook and get the system so you can ssh into it. Run 'lspci' and note what hardware you have, for building a kernel later on. Once you go chroot and grab the tarballs (Code Listing 2.5: Unpacking the stage # tar xvjpf stage3-*.tar.bz2 ) and (Code Listing 3.4: Extracting the Portage snapshot # tar xvjf /mnt/gentoo/portage-latest.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/gentoo/usr) Continue to follow the handbook. It's kind of funky, but, gentoo does not really support it's own install media anymore. I think it's some sort of test, to see how thick your skin is..... Understand that we now have "autobuilds" but the docs have not been updated to reflect those changes yet. hth, James
