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I've got my bright shiney (would you believe dull beige-coloured?) new |
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toy, and I'm working on the install now. A few anxious newbie moments... |
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- when I tried unscrewing the dialup-modem-connector cable from my old |
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machine, I ended up with the thumbscrew in my hand, and the modem |
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connector still firmly connected... oops. It took several minutes of |
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screwing in, unscrewing, and wiggling around to get it out. I have |
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used my dialup account on occasion when my ADSL ISP was down so I do |
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want to keep the dialup option. I'll remove the thumbscrews before |
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inserting the connector onto my new machine. |
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- the install CD couldn't find /dev/hda ... because the SATA drive |
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shows up as /dev/sda (dohhh) |
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- when I first tried chrooting, it failed with an "Exec format error". |
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After a bit of googling, I finally figured out that I had grabbed my |
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***32-bit X86*** Gentoo 2005.1 install CD and tried to install the |
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64-bit version (dohhh). Download and burn the AMD64 install ISO, wipe |
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/dev/sda1 and restart. |
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I've gone with 12 gigs for /dev/sda1, 2 gigs for /dev/sda5 (swap), and |
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the rest of the drive is /dev/sda6, which will be mounted as /home. I'm |
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using ReiserFS, as the Gentoo AMD64 guide seems a bit dated, with |
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references to 2004.3. The references to 32-bit compilation are somewhat |
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confusing. It looks like I have two choices... |
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1) Building my system with the "multilib" flag and *MANUALLY* building |
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stuff with the "m32" flag. Stuff should probably go to /usr/local. |
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2) A complete chrooted environment into which I do a full-blown 32-bit |
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X86 (*NOT* AMD64) install. |
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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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