[ale] Gentoo

[Geoffrey]

Charles Marcus wrote:

<snip>

> Exactly - accoring to the blurb I snipped, it was possibly a 22MB RAM disk
> that the CD mounts during/after boot-time - so, it wouldn't surprise me if
> your install bombs, if you indeed did boot off the CD.

Looking at what's currently mounted shows a 2.2 MB ram disk, so this 
confuses me.  Regardless, I've got a larger drive, a 128 MB swap and 
it's gotten further this time then in previous attempts, so I guess 
that's a good thing.

As you expected, it's still going, so I'll give updates on major points 
of progress or weekly which ever come first. :)

<snip>

> As I'm sure you already know, most of these problems are due to the
> hardware.  I have installe don numerous machines with 128MB+ RAM and 4GB+ HD
> space, and never had a problem like you've been having (issues, yes, but
> nothing that either wasn't something I did wrong, or a very temporary
> problem with the Portage tree).

Understood, but I'm trying to 'locate' the minimum install requirements, 
as I figure a custom compiled environment would be very well suited to 
low level hardware, such as the 486 arch. they 'claim' to support. :)



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