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Hello all, |
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Hardware: |
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PowerPC G5, dual 2GHz CPUs, 1.5GB RAM |
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I am no stranger to installing Gentoo, but I have questions that don't appear |
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to be answered in the PPC64 handbook. I am waiting for a new SATA drive here, |
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and when it arrives I intend to install Gentoo on it. A few Qs: |
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1. OS X is on the first sata drive, Gentoo will be on the second. Is it still |
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necessary to create the 'apple_bootstrap' partition if Gentoo will be on its |
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own complete disk? |
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2. If I follow the PPC64 guide does this give me the 64bit userland? If so, is |
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there enough (hard) unmasked software to use this as a general desktop |
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machine? Is all software in the package database marked stable under PPC64 |
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64bit userland software? Can I mix and match PPC32 and PPC64 software? Any |
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and all information on this issue would be most helpful, as I don't think I |
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completely understand it (I don't have an x86-64 machine so I am mostly |
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ignorant of 64bit issues). |
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3. I have the 23 inch Cinema display and a ATI Radeon 9600 Pro vidcard. Are |
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there drivers that can make this setup work? I ask because I booted the |
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machine with a Kubuntu PPC livecd to play around and while the cli worked, |
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when it came time for X to start the screen went black and I was forced to do |
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a hard reset. I am not sure if this was just a problem with Kubuntu, or some |
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other reason. I am not too concerned with hardware acceleration or anything, |
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at most I just want to be able to watch DVDs. |
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Apropos, if any one has the same, or a similar setup I would love if you could |
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send me your xorg.conf. |
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Again, I am very familiar with Gentoo, but have little knowledge of PPC |
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hardware and 64 bit issues...pointers to docs that explain differences and |
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ramification on this topic would be great. |
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Thanks for consideration. |
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-d |
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darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org |
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"...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." |
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- Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 |
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