Thanks for all the great ideas guys. What I have is a dual Pentium pro 200mhz system with 512m of memory and a 3 gig drive. Currently it is running NT4.0 server and I am just tired of re-booting the system all the time, go figure. The motherboard has a built in adaptec scsi controller and I'd like to continue to use it as my server system. So in reality I could use just about any linux os and just not put the GUI on it. I figured since it spends most of its time sitting there, why not let it compile the operating system. Don Sparish -----Original Message----- From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Jason Sievert Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 9:01 PM Cc: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Gentoo system requirements Distcc was always my friend. http://distcc.samba.org/ http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/distcc.xml On 4/18/06, Isaac Atilano <aristophrenic at warpmail.net> wrote: I managed to install Gentoo on a system with a 486sx processor and 32M RAM and 1.4G harddrive. What you can do is plug the harddrive into a newer system and do the install so that the installation goes quickly. You can then plug the harddrive into the old system. I tried using the new install program that is on the 2006.0 release but I had no luck with it on my systems. I recommend using the 2005.1 release and downloading the latest stages and portage snapshots instead of copying them from the cd. ----- Original message ----- From: dalan at visi.com To: "tclug-list at mn-linux.org" < tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:29:12 -0500 Subject: [tclug-list] Gentoo system requirements Does anyone know where I can find system requirements for Gentoo Linux distribution? I'd like to install it on a very old system I have. I am already aware that it may take several days for it to compile on the system but other than the compile time is there any limitation on as to a minimum system it can run on? Thanks Don S. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20060418/3ca3c38a/attachment-0001.htm