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Is there any way possible to install Arch on a machine using the VIA C3 cpu.
and/or
Is there any way to rebuild Arch and essentially make it i486 compatible.
I'm really enjoying my Arch testing so far and want to use it for a router project on a mini-itx machine available to me.
Thank you for your assistance.
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You have to recompile all your packages:
It's probably best to do this in a chroot on a more powerful computer. (its easy to setup with pacin from larch)
You then have to change cflags in /etc/makepkg.conf (of the chroot) to march=i486, or similar, makeworld, Then transfer that image to your itx machine.
It's a bit of work, and you loose the arch goodness of binary packages; or maybe you can cross-compile arch packages, and pull upgrades from your own repo...but the necessity/use of a x86_64 build machine suggests otherwise)
Maybe a specialized set of scripts/distro like openwrt is better suited?
Last edited by vogt (2008-03-11 00:32:43)
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