OK, It's been a while, so I'm following the handbook to install a gentoo server that will eventually become a firewall using a 4GB Compact Flash to IDE drive on this mobo(processor):
# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping : 6 cpu MHz : 1002.398 cache size : 256 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse up bogomips : 2007.10 So looking, via links Chapter 5, I have these choices: install-x86-minimal-20090901 stage3-i486-20090901.tar.bz2 stage3-i686-20090901.tar.bz2 which of these should I download? Here is my proposed make.conf file. Please suggest any enhancements, I should make to this file: CHOST="i486-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-Os -march=i586 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" PORTAGE_NICENESS="1" MAKEOPTS="-j2" USE="-* -nls hardened ncurses ssl crypt berkdb tcpd pam perl pcre \ python readline zlib bzip2 nptl nptlonly syslog" PS I lost that url to the nifty file where the cpu/arch is matched with CHOST and flag settings for various architectures.... This make.conf file was for a minimal K6 system and the Pentium3 should be a little bit different? All suggestions are most welcome..... James