[ltp] Gentoo on 750P

linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 13 Mar 2005 10:25:41 -0800


On Sunday 13 March 2005 09:34, Chris Schumann wrote:
> I have successfully gotten to stage2 on my ThinkPad 750P. It's currently
> working on the emerge system to get to stage3, but I thought I would post a
> benchmark.
>
> The machine has a 33MHz 486, 36MB RAM and a 12GB 4200RPM disk. I used
> Slackware floppies to boot the system and get a PCMCIA NIC working.
> Downloaded a stage1 tarball and went from there.
>
> After a very rare power failure, the NIC barfing and my aggressive office
> cleaning that cause another power failure, the "bootstrap.sh" process
> completed in just about 11.5 days.
>

I know this is an IBM mailing list, but I've got an old Compaq and I'm hoping 
to do the same thing. I'm familiar with Gentoo but not with Slack. Is there 
any way you can point me to the documentation you used or provide some loose 
steps for me to follow? Please!?