Yeah, you should be able to compile everything on another system and
then transplant those binaries to your 386. It's still going to run
really slow though.

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 21:47:40 +0200, Olivier Scalbert
<olivier.scalbert@algosyn.com> wrote:

>Hi everybody,
>
>If I have correctly understand, it is not possible to install Gentoo on
>a 386 ...
>If am right, do you think it possible to extract my hard disk, put it in
>a newer machine,
>recompile everything for a 386 and put it back in my old PC ?
>In fact, I have a Debian on this machine, but now, packages contains 486
>instructions (thanks to gcc 3.2) ...
>
>Thanks
>
>Olivier