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Gentoo on PB-Club with Cyrix II-300 and 256M RAM

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Linux-Hardware Probe:

https://linux-hardware.org/?probe=e4035a3519

Mainboard/Chipset:
https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/biostar-m5sib

Fetch-Output:

pb-club-neofetch.png

pb-club-uwufetch.png


Install with i686-stage3:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:X86/Installation/About

Relevant config files:

/etc/portage/make.conf
COMMON_FLAGS="-O2 -march=pentiumpro -mtune=generic -mbranch-cost=3 -mmmx -mno-accumulate-outgoing-args -mno-sahf -pipe"
CFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}"
CXXFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}"
FCFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}"
FFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}"

# NOTE: This stage was built with the bindist USE flag enabled

# This sets the language of build output to English.
# Please keep this setting intact when reporting bugs.
LC_MESSAGES=C.utf8
USE="-kde -qt4 -qt5 -ffmpeg -mp3 -alsa"

GENTOO_MIRRORS="https://mirror.eu.oneandone.net/linux/distributions/gentoo/gentoo/ \
    http://ftp.agdsn.de/gentoo \
    https://ftp.spline.inf.fu-berlin.de/mirrors/gentoo/"
/etc/portage/package.use/00cpu-flags
*/* CPU_FLAGS_X86: mmx
/etc/lilo.conf
lba32
boot = /dev/sda
prompt
delay = 50
image = /boot/kernel-6.6.35-gentoo-dist
        initrd = /boot/initramfs-6.6.35-gentoo-dist.img
        label = Gentoo
        append="root=UUID=a6520f0e-39ff-43c6-997f-301b287f9d90 rootfstype=ext4"
        read-write