[ale] Gentoo Linux install question

Charles Marcus CharlesM at Media-Brokers.com
Wed Aug 7 15:55:48 EDT 2002


> From: Greg [mailto:runman at telocity.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 1:15 PM
>
> The Gentoo website says that it requires  "a
> Pentium Pro or greater processor (K6 won't work)."
> Is this true ?  I ask as I have an AMD processor.

Thats just if you use the Stage 2 or 3 pre-compiled installs.  These will
speed up the installation process considerably, but you can still compile on
pretty much anything...

Excerpted from the Gentoo Install Docs:

"To install from the build CD, you will need to have a 486+ processor and
ideally at least 64 Megabytes of RAM. (Gentoo linux has been successfully
built with 64MB of RAM + 64MB of swap space, but the build process is
awfully slow under those conditions.) To begin the install process, first
grab one of our CD ISO images from
http://www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/releases/build/. Right now, we have two CDs
available. Our first CD is gentoo-ix86-1.2.iso; this ISO image is quite
small (16Mb) and contains a minimal chrootable build image
(stage1-ix86-1.2.tbz2) -- everything you need to build a Gentoo Linux system
from scratch (sources will be auto-downloaded from the Internet as needed.)
Our second CD is gentoo-i686-1.2.iso; this ISO image is a bit bigger
(100+Mb) -- it contains the same stuff as on our 16Mb ISO, plus a pre-built
i686 base system (stage3-i686-1.2.tbz2) and semi-built i686 base system
(stage2-i686-1.2.tbz2) in a tarball. The two new tarballs require a Pentium
Pro or greater processor (K6 won't work). If you have an i686+ system, they
can really help speed up installation if you're willing to not build
everything from scratch."

All AMD processors are fully supported as well.

Charles


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