[ale] Gentoo Linux install question

[Charles Marcus]

> From: Geoffrey [mailto:esoteric at 3times25.net]
> Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 10:57 AM
>
> I'm trying to test gentoo at it's word, regarding architecture.  They
> claim 486 and up, although I've not been able to locate minimum
> requirements on things such as memory.  I'm giving it a spin on p100
> with 16 meg of memory.  This is purely intentional as I pulled 16 meg
> out of it to see if this would work.  I wasn't sure whether I
> should do
> an 'emerge system' or the scripts/bootstrap.sh first, so I fired up
> scripts/bootstrap.sh.  It's crapped out on me twice with
> broken pipes,
> although it appears in a fine 'make' style it picks up where
> it left off.

>From the second paragraph of the 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.)"

This is probably why you are having problems.

What changes did you make to make.conf?

Usually when bootstrap fails, it is because you forgot to change something
in make.conf, or set your optimization levels too aggressive.  Unless you
*really* know what you are doing with these settings, it is recommended that
you use the defaults.

But, like I said, it looks like you don't have enough RAM.

Charles


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