From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PQcOu-0002EV-LI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 09:02:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 452E5E08FF for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 09:02:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq4.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq4.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.42.167]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F85CE08D9 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 08:48:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.42.146] (helo=smtp15.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq4.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQcB3-0003aP-0T for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 09:48:37 +0100 Received: from 5ed3454e.cm-7-4b.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([94.211.69.78] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp15.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQcB1-0007JL-Ob for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 09:48:35 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38E0A20A8 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 09:48:34 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from data.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (data.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id nS1nMDQ-atu8 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 09:48:34 +0100 (CET) Received: from eve.localnet (eve.lan.antarean.org [10.20.13.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BB7E8DAC for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 09:48:33 +0100 (CET) From: "J. Roeleveld" To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] About to install on a 64 bit system. Advice wanted. Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 09:48:33 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.30-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <4CFFF5DE.20303@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201012090948.34191.joost@antarean.org> X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-ID: 1PQcB1-0007JL-Ob X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: geen spam, SpamAssassin (niet cached, score=-2.599, vereist 5, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-From: joost@antarean.org X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: ade5f4b3-7c5a-4202-80c7-2062e31d5280 X-Archives-Hash: 312ab3d6b485c1611074f1638d9e47e6 On Wednesday 08 December 2010 23:23:18 Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Dale wrote: > > Hi, > > > > First post here. I'm usually on gentoo user. I'm in the process of > > building a new system which will be 64 bit. I am looking for advice. I > > would like people to post things that I might run into that one wouldn't > > expect and some things that are different from x86. I was looking at > > something on my old rig and noticed the USE flag smp. I didn't know > > about that until I ran up on it. I learned something by pure dumb luck. > > > > I'm a long time Gentoo user. Installed it at the early stages of 1.4. I > > also use KDE and have fluxbox installed as a backup. The processor is a > > AMD Phenom II X4 955 @3.2Ghz. It will start out with one 4Gb stick of > > ram. I plan to expand that later. > > > > What are some things that I should watch for and enable that isn't so > > obvious for someone new to 64 bit? > > > > Thanks. > > > > Dale > > Hi Dale, > It's been so long since I've done anything that wasn't 64-bit so > it's hard to answer. I think the 64-bit install guide is quite good. > One thing that I think some folks (me included) do that differs from > the guide (at least the last time I read it) is to use grub-static > instead of grub. I suspect that's because it's 32-bit and more > compatible. > > Other than that I can't think of anything I do differently. > > Best of luck with the new install. I'm sure it will go great. > > Cheers, > Mark Hi Dale, I run x86 on one machine (Asus EEE 901) and amd64 on all other machines. Last time I installed, I followed the standard Gentoo guide and I didn't have to use "grub-static". Not sure when this was fixed, but the current grub in portage works fine on 64bit. The only thing I can think of that is different is that you will need the nsplugin-wrapper still for some 32bit plugins to work in firefox. -- Joost Roeleveld