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On Wednesday 08 December 2010 23:23:18 Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > Hi, |
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> > First post here. I'm usually on gentoo user. I'm in the process of |
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> > building a new system which will be 64 bit. I am looking for advice. I |
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> > would like people to post things that I might run into that one wouldn't |
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> > expect and some things that are different from x86. I was looking at |
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> > something on my old rig and noticed the USE flag smp. I didn't know |
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> > about that until I ran up on it. I learned something by pure dumb luck. |
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> > I'm a long time Gentoo user. Installed it at the early stages of 1.4. I |
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> > also use KDE and have fluxbox installed as a backup. The processor is a |
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> > AMD Phenom II X4 955 @3.2Ghz. It will start out with one 4Gb stick of |
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> > ram. I plan to expand that later. |
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> > What are some things that I should watch for and enable that isn't so |
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> > obvious for someone new to 64 bit? |
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> > Thanks. |
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> > Dale |
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> Hi Dale, |
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> It's been so long since I've done anything that wasn't 64-bit so |
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> it's hard to answer. I think the 64-bit install guide is quite good. |
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> One thing that I think some folks (me included) do that differs from |
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> the guide (at least the last time I read it) is to use grub-static |
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> instead of grub. I suspect that's because it's 32-bit and more |
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> compatible. |
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> Other than that I can't think of anything I do differently. |
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> Best of luck with the new install. I'm sure it will go great. |
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> Cheers, |
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> Mark |
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Hi Dale, |
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I run x86 on one machine (Asus EEE 901) and amd64 on all other machines. |
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Last time I installed, I followed the standard Gentoo guide and I didn't have |
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to use "grub-static". |
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Not sure when this was fixed, but the current grub in portage works fine on |
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64bit. |
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The only thing I can think of that is different is that you will need the |
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nsplugin-wrapper still for some 32bit plugins to work in firefox. |
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Joost Roeleveld |