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From: Francisco Rivas <taken2k4@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dell laptop install fail
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:11:18
Message-Id: 2fcf3fa50904161411u1fc306afwbe6959a1c4a67bc3@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Dell laptop install fail by Mike Kazantsev
1 Hi, What Dell Laptop do you have?. because I tried to install Gentoo amd64
2 in a E4300 and it fails, did not recognize the ethernet and some problems
3 install packages.
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7 On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Mike Kazantsev
8 <mike_kazantsev@×××××××.net>wrote:
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10 > On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:34:02 +1000
11 > Adam Carter <Adam.Carter@×××××××××.au> wrote:
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13 > > Much like http://bugs.gentoo.org/26150 the ia64 boot cd is not
14 > recognised and the bios falls through to boot the hard disk. Knoppix boots
15 > fine, but if i were to try to install from 32 bit knoppix it will fail as
16 > soon as I chroot as i would then be attempting to run 64 bit binaries from
17 > the stage3 tarball using the 32 bit knoppix kernel. Do i understand that
18 > correctly? And if so, what are my options for installing 64 bit gentoo?
19 > >
20 > > tnx
21 >
22 > ia64 is an arch for Intel Itanium server processors, a laptop should
23 > have amd64-compatible processor, so just try this one.
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26 > Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net
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RE: [gentoo-user] Dell laptop install fail Adam Carter <Adam.Carter@×××××××××.au>