Re: Gentoo live on cyrix 300

2003-03-03 Thread Shaul Karl
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 10:04:57AM +0200, Assaf Flatto wrote: > Thanks for the info. > I decided to try and do a regular debian 3.0.1 on that machine and it > went quite well. > The problem arose when i tried to cennect it to the net . > I have an ADSL gateway in my home and when i tried to config

RE: Gentoo live on cyrix 300

2003-03-03 Thread Assaf Flatto
[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Gentoo live on cyrix 300 > > > On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 15:52, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > > > If you're going to install Linux on it, use one of those > variant Linux > > distributions and NOT Red Hat 8.x or Mandrake 9.x ! You > cannot

Re: Gentoo live on cyrix 300

2003-03-02 Thread Alex Shnitman
On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 15:52, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > If you're going to install Linux on it, use one of those variant Linux > distributions and NOT Red Hat 8.x or Mandrake 9.x ! You cannot even boot them > since they're optimized for i586 - and your Cyrix barely passes the 486 > (although it's o

Re: Gentoo live on cyrix 300

2003-03-02 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
On Saturday 01 March 2003 10:47 am, Assaf Flatto wrote: > Hi > > I tired to install the gentoo /unreal 1.4.1 live on a cyrix 300 machine > with 256MB RAM and a 8GB HDD . Now WHY would a sane person tries to install a distribution which needs to compile itself in order to optimize? do you know how

Gentoo live on cyrix 300

2003-03-02 Thread Assaf Flatto
Hi I tired to install the gentoo /unreal 1.4.1 live on a cyrix 300 machine with 256MB RAM and a 8GB HDD . it went well until i got to the second tar ball and tried to bootstrap the system. I've been working with the install file that comes with the CD . i thought at fist that the problem is tha