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Well, seems like the other PC's cd writer got mildly broken so it can only |
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read cds, not burn any. So after some thought, I salvaged my old PC's cd |
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writer and installed it (in quite an ugly way, as ide cables were to short) |
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in the windows box, burnt the LiveCD and installed Linux on my new machine. |
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I just booted it up for the first time, and it looks... ok. I think I forgot |
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to include vesa or other standart video support in the kernel. |
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On Nov 27, 2007 2:46 AM, David Relson <relson@×××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:53:42 -0500 |
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> Aaron Clark wrote: |
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> > Yoav Luft wrote: |
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> > > Hi all, |
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> > > Got myself a new machine, AMD Athlon x2 4000 based, all up and |
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> > > running, but I have no functional CD writer! Can I use the |
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> > > previously burnt 2006 minimal x86 cd to install on my x86_64 system? |
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> > > Or can you think of any other way to install without a burning a |
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> > > new CD? |
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> > |
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> > It depends. You can install a regular i686 (32bit) system on the |
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> > Athlon 64 chips just fine. if you want to do that, you should be ok |
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> > with your old minimal CD assuming your hardware is supported by it. |
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> > If you want to install an x86_64 aka amd64 sytem (64bit) from your |
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> > 32bit install environment, then you're SOL as the chroot will fail. |
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> > |
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> > Aaron |
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> I too upgraded my hardware from an Athlon to an Athlon X2 and asked |
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> about using my 32 bit gentoo system as the base from which to install |
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> 64 bit gentoo. When queried, the unanimous response from the list |
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> is "can't be done -- have to use a CD". |
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> It seems like it ought to be doable. I anticipated something like |
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> download a 64-bit iso, |
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> mount it, |
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> uncompress/unsqueeze/whatever |
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> copy files to the hard drive |
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> configure grub/lilo |
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> reboot |
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> emerge ... |
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> However conventional wisdom is this won't work. So, yesterday, I |
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> booted from the AMD64 LiveCD, saw the LiveCD choke on my video setup |
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> and incorrectly mounted partitions, then (on the 4th or 5th try) start |
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> giving "NMI watchdog ... LOCKUP" messages. Someone suggested trying |
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> the AMD64 Minimal Install CD and, through using it, I can now boot to |
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> either a 32 bit or a 64 bit kernel (with different partitions for the |
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> 32 and 64 bit environments). There's more emerging to do to get X |
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> fully built and all my desired applications running, but progress is |
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> being made. |
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> If you'd like (and you're in the US), I'll be glad to send you one of my |
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> AMD64 LiveCDs (as I have 2 and neither is happy with my mobo). |
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> Regards, |
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> |
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> David |
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> -- |
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