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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 about |
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>> 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 AMD |
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>> Phenom II X4 955 @3.2Ghz. It will start out with one 4Gb stick of ram. I |
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>> 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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Thanks. I wasn't aware of that. I made a note of it. I certainly |
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don't want that to mess up. lol |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |