[wplug] gentoo install on old hardware

[Henry Umansky]

That seems about normal.  I don't recommend installing gentoo on anything 
less than a 1Gz processor.  Its a fun distro to play with, but you 
definitely need a lot of patience.

-Henry

--On Wednesday, April 28, 2004 12:19 PM -0400 Duncan Hutty 
<duncanhutty at attbi.com> wrote:r

> I thought that this old Pentium75 PC I have laying around should be just
> about enough for a firewall or a router, it has 128MB RAM after all.
>
> So I began a gentoo install. No big deal, I have done several. I thought
> it would be best to compile from stage1 since I wasn't in a hurry to have
> it available and I figured it needed every possible advantage I could
> give it. Nothing special except I cut out a bunch of things. I set the
> USE flags to eliminate java, and anything for a desktop (X, sound, etc.)
>
> Well that was over 3 weeks ago and as far as I can see it still seems to
> be chugging along. Has anyone else seen this?
>
> --
> Duncan Hutty
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