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Hal Martin wrote: |
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> I installed Gentoo from inside Ubuntu 6.10 (my previous system) through |
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> chroot. This was because I couldn't use a LiveCD as I have an AMD64 |
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> based system. |
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> Knoppix and many other LiveCDs are 32bit, as that is currently what a |
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> majority of computers out there are. So, unless you can point me to a |
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> 64bit LiveCD that isn't some alternate version of a binary distribution |
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> I believe we still need a Gentoo install CD. |
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There are in fact quite of few of 64bit LiveCDs. Knoppix64 being one of |
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them. |
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A simple Google gives me this: |
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http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php where you can even filter |
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LiveCDs. |
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> Some people's arguments are that we should rely on other LiveCDs to |
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> build a Gentoo system as this will give the devs more time to work on |
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> things that they feel are more important. I would agree with them |
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> normally, but I'd rather download one CD that contains all the stuff I |
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> need than download a Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora/Mandriva LiveCD (all of those |
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> distributions provide a 64bit LiveCD) and the stage tarball. |
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Even with a LiveCD with a stage tarball on it, you will still need to |
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download additional stuff during the installation, you will still need |
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to sync the portage tree if you want your system to be up-to-date. |
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It's almost the same as to downloading a LiveCD and downloading the |
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tarball separately, so I honestly don't think you can save much work by |
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having a stage tarball on a LiveCD. |
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> Sure, if you're on a 32bit system, any LiveCD will work well for |
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> building a Gentoo system. However, if you happen to be one of the |
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> growing number of people who have purchased a 64bit system (such as an |
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> AMD Athlon, Opteron, or an Intel Pentium D (some models), Pentium Dual |
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> core (E21xx series), Core 2 Duo/Quad, or a Xeon system) and want to run |
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> Gentoo 64bit, your install options are suddenly very limited. |
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I myself have 3 machines, a Athlon64X2, a Core2 Duo and a Pentium III, |
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I've used Gentoo minimal, Knoppix and Knoppix64 CDs during my |
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installation on these 3 machines and I haven't encounter any problem |
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using any of them, and that's why I said earlier in the thread that |
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LiveCDs really doesn't matter, as long as you can boot, fdisk, mount, |
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chroot, emerge, you are fine :) |
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I hope I've provided you with some useful information. |
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- -- Joe |
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A computer scientist is someone who, when told "go to hell", considers |
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the "go to" harmful rather than the destination. |
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