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Originally Posted by kid robusto
Ok the machine i want to put it on is a P1 @200/233 with 192 meg of ram, 2ish gig HDD, and soem other crap. my next queston is i saw read about universal Live Cd, but i cant seem to find it on any FTPs, and i see the stage ones for the i686 and the x86's are only like 15 or 20 megish, is that right for size?
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You may need a bigger harddrive as well. Since Gentoo compiles everything from scratch, you need a pretty decent sized harddrive to hold temporary compilation files. For instance, OpenOffice.org (which will take a year to compile on that machine) will use over 2 or 3 GB alone during compilation (from my own experience).
Another few things you might want to look into on a computer that slow are DistCC and CCache. DistCC is a Distributed Computing Client, it basically takes other Linux (or Windows running various Linux emulators) machines and uses them to help compile faster. It's not too hard to setup, I believe there's a good document on Gentoo's site, if not just check their forums out, they're one of the best Linux forums I've seen (
http://forums.gentoo.org). Look around for Lisa there, she's the developer incharge of DistCC.
As for CCache, it'll take compiles and save them, so if you're compiling the same program over again, it'll go faster. It won't work well with that small of a harddrive, but if you can find a bigger harddrive it can't necessarily hurt to have.
All in all, Gentoo is a very good disto, it's taught me almost all that I know about Linux. If you can, definitely run a Stage 1 installation, because it'll help you to make some connections about how everything works, if you don't already know.
I must say, it's kind of interesting to see how many people use Linux, even more specifically Gentoo, in FIRST. I guess we might be changing the world in more than one way?