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Old 02-21-2008, 06:27 AM
Alex Schuster
 
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Default Re: gentoo on 386

gantbd@muohio.edu (Brian Gant) writes:

> -grin- No can do. As Mr. Portnoy pointed out, the stages for x86 are
> compiled for 486 - a piece of info that I didn't have at the time of
> posting. Have fun compiling for the next 3 weeks!


If Olivier has another, faster machine in the LAN, he could use distcc
to compile on it, instead of using the i386. The setup is quite easy,
it is described here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/distcc.xml
I just set up Gentoo on a laptop, using distcc after bootstrapping to
speed things up a lot.


> --
> Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in
> waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht
> the frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl
> mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do
> not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.


http://www.bisso.com/ujg_archives/000227.html has some info on this.

Alex
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