So anyway, it was like, 12:16 CEST Jul 06 2004, you know? Oh, and, yeah,
ric_man was all like, "Dude,
> Johan Lindquist wrote:

> Does Gentoo not make a boot floppy for these occasions?

Far as I know, there's no gentoo boot floppy.

>> Another alternative is to pull the hd and stick it in another box,

> I don't know anyone else with a PC as old as the Toshiba 500CDT.
> Still, that's another good suggestion.

You can still generate code that will run on any 386, even if the
compiler is run on newer hardware, so preparing the hd in another box
(even to the point of getting grub on it, possibly) wouldn't be so
difficult.

> It'll just be used mainly to surf the web.

You might run into some issues with x11 as well, if you don't take
very good care in partitioning your disk. I probably wouldn't make
more than three partitions, root, /boot and swap.

In a pinch, you can mount something via nfs (or samba) to use as
$PORTAGE_TMP, but that's probably going to make the compiles even
slower.

> Mozilla does the "--" for me, and in the case of this, it has a
> space on the end.

You're completely correct, my mistake. Apparently slrn tries to be
clever and only considers the last "-- " a signature delimiter now.
That's abit of a disappointment, I hope it's configurable.

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