[ale] Gentoo Linux install question

[Geoffrey]

Charles Marcus wrote:
>>From: Geoffrey [mailto:esoteric at 3times25.net]
>>Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2002 9:16 AM
>>
>>May have run into a stumbling block here.  My install
>>get's to the point where there's a tremendous amount
>>of disc IO, the disk light is on constantly and the
>>drive sounds like a couple 1000 crickets.  It's running
>>the scripts/bootstrap.sh script. Anyway, on the screen
>>it was displaying the following:
>>
>>sv_YU.ISO-8859-2... done
>>.
>>.
>>te_IN.UTF-8...
>>
>>So now I've not seen any progress in some time, any
>>idea what it's up to?  I fear it's some kind of
>>infinite loop.  Switching to a different vt shows the
>>last updated directory was tmp and that was almost 3
>>hours ago.
>>
>>It got to this same point yesterday and I decided to
>>restart the whole thing with a clean install, since
>>I'd hacked around with the previous attempt a couple
>>of times.
> 
> 
> Gentoo uses a lot of disk space during the install process... it sounds like
> you may have run out.
> 
> How much free space was left on the partition where /tmp resides?

I built a single file system, and there was still plenty left, 43%

> 
> The thrashing may also have been due to the low memory situation (32MB being
> half the 'ideal' Gentoo recommends)...
> 
> Hmmmm.  I looked around and didn't see any definitive answers as to how much
> free disk space you need before beginning an install - I'll ask on the
> list - usually get a fast reply...

Great, I guess I can add more.  I just find it hard to believe they 
claim 486 and up, when 64 meg would be a lot of memory for a 486.

> 
> Charles
> 
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