Re: distro rec for beige g3 & sys reqs.

From: David Harrison (davidis_at_diebots.davidis.diebots.plus.com)
Date: 10/22/04 

Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 14:32:35 +0100

On 10/22/2004 2:18 PM, Ulrich Plate said:

> I've got Gentoo on a 10 GB SCSI disk in an old beige G3 (266 MHz)
desktop
> with 96 MB of RAM. Oldworld support was gone from Gentoo PPC LiveCDs for a
> few months, but the 2004.3 release coming up in a a few days will have it
> again. If you can't wait that long just look for one of the older CD
> images and install from those, the boot media doesn't make any difference,
> provided you perform the system installation from a freshly downloaded
> stage 1/2/3 tarball. I'd recommend a stage3 installation: Compiling
> everything from stage1 took ten days on my G3, and yours has even less
> memory...

Would an OldWorld-friendly Gentoo LiveCD be a good option for my old G3
Wallstreet? It has 512MB RAM...

cheers,

David H 

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