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I have a bit of a situation as I plan to do upgrade/install gentoo |
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for the following systems: |
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(All these systems are currently running gentoo (2.6.11) with |
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the portage snapshot of 20051009) |
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System Processor./HW some info. |
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[1] Cyrix c7 Runs mythtv, head-less, |
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udev |
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Mini-ITX based very slow compilation |
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[2] AMD64 My desktop, devfs, 32-bit |
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nForce4 based nvidia binary drivers |
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Plan to install |
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64-bit gentoo ina |
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separate |
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partition |
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[3] P3 - compaq desktop, dual boot with |
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win98 |
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laptop working (old) wine |
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installation, devfs |
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[4] P4 Planned gentoo |
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install, dual boot with |
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winxp |
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I would like to upgrade/install gentoo on all these systems to the |
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current version ( Mythtv-0.20, X.org 7.1, gcc 4.1, kernel >=2.6.18) . |
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All of them have only the few strictly needed apps, no bloat. |
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I have a few questions in this regard |
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- As the mythtv box is very slow for compilations, is it possible to |
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build |
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a binary distribution for that configuration on a differ machine |
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(system [2]) ? Last time (Oct.2005) when the stage3 install was done, |
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I had to |
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put the CFLAGS as "march=i586 -m3dnow" for a stable system. How to |
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do that in a binary distribution build? |
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- As the network connection is a slow dialup connection, I would like to |
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download everything before the upgrade. I have with me 2006.1 i686 and |
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AMD64 livecd, portage-20061025 snapshot, i686 stage3 tarballs, X.org |
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7.1, gcc 4.1 distfiles. Plan to start with 2006.1 install and then |
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switch to a |
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more current snapshot. At what point in the install should I switch ? |
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- Are there any hints for choosing a portage snapshot ? I took |
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portage-20061025 since it was downloaded couple of weeks back. |
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- Are the i686 release source tarballs ok for 64-bit gentoo also ? |
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Any other advise /hints ? |
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Thanks |
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sathish |
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