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J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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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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>>> |
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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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> -- |
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> Joost Roeleveld |
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I have Firefox installed here but mostly use Seamonkey. I assume the |
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same would apply for Seamonkey as for Firefox? |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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