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| author |   Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@gentoo.org> | 2001-11-20 16:28:12 +0000 |
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| committer | Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@gentoo.org> | 2001-11-20 16:28:12 +0000 |
| commit | 65418b7491a4dd686123ad37784af6fd394792ff (patch) | |
| tree | 3a0c7e250660b872533c8e1fb1dd91ccff13e389 /app-doc | |
| parent | Added Komba digest (diff) | |
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Added update-modules note and tweaked required resources to 64MB ram +
64MB swap.
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diff --git a/app-doc/gentoo-web/files/xml/build.xml b/app-doc/gentoo-web/files/xml/build.xml index c2cc8cf17e7f..c2a8a83ea8a8 100644 --- a/app-doc/gentoo-web/files/xml/build.xml +++ b/app-doc/gentoo-web/files/xml/build.xml @@ -29,7 +29,10 @@ that Linux supports. The installation works by using a small included build ima a base to download and install packages whose sources are downloaded from the Internet.</p> <p>To install from the build CD, you will need to have a 486+ processor, and ideally at -least 64 Megabytes of RAM. To begin the install process, first grab the 16Mb +least 64 Megabytes of RAM. +(Gentoo linux has been successfully built with 64MB of RAM + 64MB of swap space, +but the build process is awfully slow under those conditions.) +To begin the install process, first grab the 16Mb build CD ISO image (<path>build-ix86-1.0_rc6-r10.iso</path> is the latest at the time this article was written) from <uri>http://www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/snapshots/build/ix86-linux-gnu/</uri>. Then, create @@ -691,6 +694,11 @@ and reboot the system:</p> # <i>umount /mnt/gentoo</i> # <i>reboot</i> </pre> +<note> +After rebooting, it is a good idea to run the <c>update-modules</c> command to create +the <path>/etc/modules.conf</path> file. Instead of modifying this file directly, you should +generally make changes to the files in <path>/etc/modules.d</path>. +</note> <p>If you have any questions or would like to get involved with Gentoo Linux development, consider joining our gentoo-dev mailing list (there's a "click to subscribe" link on our <uri link="http://www.gentoo.org">main page</uri>). </p> |