Edit: I am trying to put linux on a compaq armada 1700.

  • @[email protected]
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    129 days ago

    gentoo. i’m not even gonna look this up but i’d be surprised if immolo hasn’t installed in that platform yet ;)

    • @Steamymoomilk
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      729 days ago

      I installed gentoo on a pentium D it took 5 days to compile and to setup, with distcc.

        • @Steamymoomilk
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          729 days ago

          Cause i wanted to see how long it would take

          • @[email protected]
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            329 days ago

            There was also a competition (long ago) to see who could build a computer that would successfully boot Windows 95. The goal was to boot the slowest possible time (no arbitrary delays allowed).

            The winner wrote a shim that emulated a floating point unit of the i486 so it would boot on a i386 (no floating point). The result was… booting after many weeks. They won big time.

          • @[email protected]
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            229 days ago

            I did some similar stuff on a Raspberry Pi. I had to NFS mount my desktop and make a swapdisk on the NFS mount to have enough RAM to build. It wasn’t fast, but it did eventually work.

    • @nyan
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      228 days ago

      I wonder if there’s a Gentoo binpkg host for i486 specifically, since it might almost be practical then. (Or you could set up your own.)