[CLUE-Tech] gentoo - was Debian: gpm not installing by default

[Collins]

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On Sun, 21 Apr 2002 11:03:10 -0600 (MDT) jbrockmeier at earthlink.net
wrote:> On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Collins wrote:
> 

> So, compile everything and you'll be okay? Well, I've got a 
> PII 350/128MB of RAM with nothing better to do...
> 
> I wonder if there's a way to use a more powerful machine to compile
> packages and then move them to another? I've got a Dual Xeon III 
> with 1GB of RAM running KRUD that would make short order of
> compiling everything...probably too complex to get it to work right,
> though. 

It could be done, but it would be quite a tedious process to generate
the system on a different machine.  I did my first gentoo install on a
K6/II 300 with 64M ram - slow but it worked.  It took about 24 hours
for the initial system, and about 24 hours for each piece like KDE,
GNOME, etc.

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Collins Richey - Denver Area - WWTLRD?
Gentoo_rc6-15(1.1a) 2.4.19pre - xfce + sylpheed + mozilla