Re: GENTOO
  By: Angus McLeod to Ibanez on Tue Mar 18 2008 09:46 am

 >  > If I pulled my Gentoo drive from my Core2 Quad based system and you even 
 >  > to run it on a Pentium 4, it would not work.
 > 
 > I hope I nevert have a system which, should the MB die, won;t boot up on 
 > any other configuration.

If your still using the same or newer proc you should be OK... saying that you
have the proper drivers for the drive controllers on your new MB compile in (or
modules + init ramdisk). If I read the docs correctly, you should be able to
get a system compiled specifically for a Pentium 3 to boot on a Pentium 4, but
a Pentium 2 will definitely not boot that kernel. etc...

 >  > And you'd have to recompile the ENTIRE slackware distro to get the same e
 >  > You're entire Gentoo system is compiled from those flags.
 > 
 > So what would be wrong with that?  If it becomes necessary to compile the 
 > entire distro, then you compile the entire distro.  Slackware comes with 
 > that option.  While the entire distro can be installed from pre-built 
 > binaries, but each and every component is also provided in source form, 
 > with a 'SlackBuild' script to compile them.  Set your options as needed 
 > and compile away!

You could, but you'd still not have Portage (which is in and of itself a reason
to run Gentoo IMHO). Slapt-get is OK, but it doesn't compile for you and handle
automation of compile flags does it?

 > And in the mean time, you can bring up a new Slackware box in what?  
 > Twenty minutes?

If you use the Gentoo binary snapshot, you can bring a whole system up pretty
quickly as well, and just let the system get replaced with compiled code
through updates. I did this on an older system to save time. But when runinning
it on a Core 2 Quad w/ 4GB of RAM, why not start off from scratch? If you blink
while compiling the kernel you'll miss the whole thing :) (I run makeopts=-j8)



- Ibanez

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