Re: [gentoo-user] really old box for a firewall

2009-05-09 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 28 April 2009, Yahya Mohammad wrote: > > Help would be appreciated, even if it's along the lines of turning the > > old box into a boat anchor, as it's not fit for purpose. > > I would say it's more efficient to use your old box as a boat anchor :) > and get a cheap low power consuming e

Re: [gentoo-user] really old box for a firewall

2009-04-28 Thread Yahya Mohammad
> Help would be appreciated, even if it's along the lines of turning the > old box into a boat anchor, as it's not fit for purpose. I would say it's more efficient to use your old box as a boat anchor :) and get a cheap low power consuming embedded box like the popular WRT54GL or NSLU2. Those wou

Re: [gentoo-user] really old box for a firewall

2009-04-27 Thread alex stone
Thank you gentlemen. That gives me something to chase. The help is appreciated. Alex. On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 4:18 AM, Adam Carter wrote: >> 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

RE: [gentoo-user] really old box for a firewall

2009-04-27 Thread Adam Carter
> 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 whic

Re: [gentoo-user] really old box for a firewall

2009-04-27 Thread Daniel de Oliveira
> Do i need to install an older version of Gentoo in order for this to work? No, never. You can use the last portage. > Do i need to flag the boot in some way with options in order to get > this to install? I can be wrong, but I believe the livecd is i686, so will not run in your box (pentium-mm

[gentoo-user] really old box for a firewall

2009-04-27 Thread alex stone
Hello all, my first post here. Since installing Gentoo on my working audio box, i've had a good run, with no problems. (I'm a full time classical composer) The audio packages are stable and i get to work all day every day without having to spend time tweaking anything in the OS. (At last) So with