Thanks fellas. I'm D/L the knoppix as i write, and we'll see what happens. Alex.
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 5:43 AM, James <wirel...@tampabay.rr.com> wrote: > alex stone <compose59 <at> gmail.com> writes: > > >> So with that in mind, i have an interest in turning a very old box i >> have here (pentium-mmx) into a firewall/router. > > > Ah, I do this all the time. > > > Use knoppix to boot your target mmx system into a viable linux. > Follow the handbook and get the system so you can ssh into it. > Run 'lspci' and note what hardware you have, for building a > kernel later on. > > Once you go chroot and grab the tarballs > > (Code Listing 2.5: Unpacking the stage > # tar xvjpf stage3-*.tar.bz2 ) > > and > > (Code Listing 3.4: Extracting the Portage snapshot > # tar xvjf /mnt/gentoo/portage-latest.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/gentoo/usr) > > > Continue to follow the handbook. > > > It's kind of funky, but, gentoo does not really support > it's own install media anymore. I think it's > some sort of test, to see how thick your > skin is..... > > > > Understand that we now have "autobuilds" but the docs > have not been updated to reflect those changes yet. > > hth, > > > James > > > > > -- Parchment Studios (It started as a joke...)
