[ale] Gentoo Linux install question

[Charles Marcus]

> From: Benjamin Dixon [mailto:beatle at arches.uga.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 5:16 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.

> Yeah, small caveat I guess to a great distro. I tried
> to install on a K6-233 and chroot would segfault on me.

Well, it wasn't the fact you were using a K6-233 - unless you were trying to
use one of the i686 stage 2 or 3 tarballs, which I believe would result in
the error you describe.

Also, the heavy compiles *will* find bad memory that even a 48hr memtest
won't find, so another gret thing about Gentoo is, if you get everything
installed, you know your hardware is good too.

Charles


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