From 65418b7491a4dd686123ad37784af6fd394792ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Grant Goodyear Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 16:28:12 +0000 Subject: Added update-modules note and tweaked required resources to 64MB ram + 64MB swap. --- app-doc/gentoo-web/files/xml/build.xml | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'app-doc') 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.

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 (build-ix86-1.0_rc6-r10.iso is the latest at the time this article was written) from http://www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/snapshots/build/ix86-linux-gnu/. Then, create @@ -691,6 +694,11 @@ and reboot the system:

# umount /mnt/gentoo # reboot + +After rebooting, it is a good idea to run the update-modules command to create +the /etc/modules.conf file. Instead of modifying this file directly, you should +generally make changes to the files in /etc/modules.d. +

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