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On Thursday 16 April 2009 13:34:02 Adam Carter wrote: |
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> Much like http://bugs.gentoo.org/26150 the ia64 boot cd is not recognised |
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> and the bios falls through to boot the hard disk. Knoppix boots fine, but |
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> if i were to try to install from 32 bit knoppix it will fail as soon as I |
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> chroot as i would then be attempting to run 64 bit binaries from the stage3 |
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> tarball using the 32 bit knoppix kernel. Do i understand that correctly? |
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> And if so, what are my options for installing 64 bit gentoo? |
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> tnx |
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First, no HTML mail here. The majority of users don't like it. |
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Second, you can't use ia64 on a Dell laptop - I sincerely doubt you have |
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Itanium chips in it. You want amd64. |
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You other question is correct, you can't run 64 bit stuff from a 32 bit |
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kernel. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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