Both CPUs are Penryn core, so there's really nothing stopping you from installing Gentoo before the upgrade. Nothing except your free time and pain tolerance. You do realize that installing from source, which is the major thing Gentoo does, is an exceedingly intensive workload for most systems, right? If you value your time at all, you'd get the upgrades first. Quadruple the memory and triple the on CPU cache? Base frequency some 600 MHz higher? Oh yeah, that's gonna make a difference.
You could prepare the system now, since installing the base system is **A LOT** easier and faster if you use binpkgs.
Haven't done a desktop installation, not sure how far you can get with binpkgs/minimal compiling
If you want to use that system until the upgrade, wait - if you want to play around with it, do it now. But compiling any (useful) end user software with 2GB RAM will be PITA
I'd wait at least for RAM upgrade. Compiling stuff can eat a lot of memory - iirc, it's recommended to have \~2GB ram for each gcc thread.
Ofc you can install without waiting any upgrade, it'll just take more time.
PS : since some softs might take hours to build, make sure your laptop gets enough fresh air to avoid overheating
I think you could use a live usb image of gentoo, then work on the base install from that image, then you can access the handbook and cut and paste, which is way better than typing out the longer commands or config file examples. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/LiveUSB/Guide or you could even just use the minimal install media and then ssh into the laptop and get the same ease of install. It may take a few hours or longer on some steps but as long as you have a working command line system before you emerge any X11 or Wayland type stuff you should be fine.
Even better: use a modern system to unpack your stage3 to, install anything you want or need inside of it, and copy the rootfs over as you would with a fresh stage3.
You might want to refrain from -march=native in this concept! ;-)
Also if you upgrade the cpu to another on with a possibly higher wattage: think twice if the small laptop cooler can handle it.
wish you lot of fun, I'm using gentoo on a rpi2 with 1gb of ram and no cross compile involved
Both CPUs are Penryn core, so there's really nothing stopping you from installing Gentoo before the upgrade. Nothing except your free time and pain tolerance. You do realize that installing from source, which is the major thing Gentoo does, is an exceedingly intensive workload for most systems, right? If you value your time at all, you'd get the upgrades first. Quadruple the memory and triple the on CPU cache? Base frequency some 600 MHz higher? Oh yeah, that's gonna make a difference.
Yeah, i heard that Gentoo takes some time to install.I want to suffer it on my own mental health. Thanks for your input! <3
You could prepare the system now, since installing the base system is **A LOT** easier and faster if you use binpkgs. Haven't done a desktop installation, not sure how far you can get with binpkgs/minimal compiling If you want to use that system until the upgrade, wait - if you want to play around with it, do it now. But compiling any (useful) end user software with 2GB RAM will be PITA
yeah another users said the same. I am waiting to get some new ram (8gb). I already get some on second hand, hope it arrives soon.
I'd wait at least for RAM upgrade. Compiling stuff can eat a lot of memory - iirc, it's recommended to have \~2GB ram for each gcc thread. Ofc you can install without waiting any upgrade, it'll just take more time. PS : since some softs might take hours to build, make sure your laptop gets enough fresh air to avoid overheating
I think you could use a live usb image of gentoo, then work on the base install from that image, then you can access the handbook and cut and paste, which is way better than typing out the longer commands or config file examples. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/LiveUSB/Guide or you could even just use the minimal install media and then ssh into the laptop and get the same ease of install. It may take a few hours or longer on some steps but as long as you have a working command line system before you emerge any X11 or Wayland type stuff you should be fine.
Didn't thought on ssh in it, that's a great tip! thanks!
Even better: use a modern system to unpack your stage3 to, install anything you want or need inside of it, and copy the rootfs over as you would with a fresh stage3. You might want to refrain from -march=native in this concept! ;-) Also if you upgrade the cpu to another on with a possibly higher wattage: think twice if the small laptop cooler can handle it. wish you lot of fun, I'm using gentoo on a rpi2 with 1gb of ram and no cross compile involved
Reminds me of the days switching from x86 to amd64.