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On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> [snip] |
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>>>> Maybe a 32-bit Gentoo chroot that doesn't maintain any desktop or X11, |
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>>>> etc. could work? If I could convert the files at the command line |
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>>>> using ffmpeg in 32-bit then that would be pretty manageable in terms |
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>>>> of Gentoo work, assuming the ffmpeg package can be built as without |
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>>>> any GUI stuff? |
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>>> I was just thinking that. I played with a chroot briefly just before |
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>>> inara and kaylee bit it, and it seemed pretty trivial. Were it me, |
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>>> that'd be the next thing I'd try. (But then, compiling is cheap for |
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>>> me) |
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>> I think I'll try it in a Virtualbox VM first I instead of a chroot. |
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>> That's pretty easy to deal with. Easy to back up. Easy to move to a |
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>> different system down the road. No disk partitions, etc. |
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Hi Michael, |
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OK, the markets are _really_ boring this morning so while I'm |
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waiting for grass to grow on my trading platform I did the 32-bit |
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install in a Virtualbox VM. Booted up fine the first time. Only took |
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about an hour to get it running, so not too bad. (Made easier by being |
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able to look at config files on host. |
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emerge -DuN @world ran in a few minutes and the machine is |
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up-to-date so I can start looking at maybe ffmpeg or something as a |
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32-bit app. |
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For anyone following this thread silently (or looking it up in some |
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future search) the default settings in gentoo-sources-2.3.12 were |
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fine. I changed the processor to a Core 2 setting, removed all the |
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networking devices except for the default Intel devices which are |
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built in (as that's what the Virtualbox network VM model seems to be |
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built on) and built in ext3 & ext4 file systems. I used grub, not |
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grub-static as I usually do and just followed the 32-bit install |
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guide. Booted perfectly the first time. |
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The only Vbox trick was to choose the bridged adapter, not the |
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default NAT device. After I did that networking was up and I was off |
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and running. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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