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Bad news... my 1.8 ghz P4 died recently and I'm now running on my |
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emergency backup 6-year-old Dell (450 mhz PIII and 128 megs of RAM). |
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Let's just say that editing 2560 X 1920 digital photos in GIMP is a |
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"rather liesurely" process. |
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Good news... Saturday, I'm picking up... |
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64bit AMD 3000BP (with SSE3 !!!) |
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AMD 939pin Athlon 64bit 3000+ Retail Box |
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Giga-Byte K8NF-9 MB Firewire A & B |
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2 gigs (OK, so I pigged out) DDR400 |
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SATA2 WD1600JS 160G 7200 8M 3G |
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SONY 1.44 Floppy Drive |
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LG 4163B 16X DVD±RW & DVDRAM |
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PCI-E16X ATI X300HyperMem256MTVDV |
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227/206 Tower Case w Power & Front USB |
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Audio, Gigabit Lan, Firewire A & B |
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This'll be my first linux install that won't be 32-bit Intel. I've |
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been reading the AMD64 install docs on the Gentoo.org website. The big |
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items I've noticed are... |
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- stick with ext2fs/ext3fs with all other filesystems being unstable |
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- do not enable kernel pre-emption if I want firewire to work |
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- enable 32-bit emulation for some apps |
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I notice that the AMD64 Gentoo install manual at |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml only lists |
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GRUB. Does LILO not work on AMD64? |
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I intend to use the following partition layout... |
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- / 8 gigs |
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- swap 2 gigs |
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- /var 8 gigs |
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- /home gets the rest of the drive. There'll be tons of my garbage |
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under /home/misc. /usr/local and /opt will be symlinks on / with |
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the actual files sitting in /home/misc/local and /home/misc/opt. |
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This layout reflects my experiences from my Windows and Redhat days. |
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Keep the OS on its own partition, so you can blow away and re-install or |
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install the next version as required. |
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Anything else to watch for when installing on AMD64? |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca |
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