Re: [gentoo-user] Any booby-traps with AMD64?

["W.Kenworthy" <billk@iinet.net.au>]

On my last few installs I have used LVM2: magic as it means you can
easily and transparently resize partitions and add new drives with
minimal downtime.  Partition size choices are no longer such a limiting
factor.

Highly recommended.

BillK


On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 22:11 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   I've got my bright shiney (would you believe dull beige-coloured?) new
> toy, and I'm working on the install now.  A few anxious newbie moments...
> 
>   - when I tried unscrewing the dialup-modem-connector cable from my old
>     machine, I ended up with the thumbscrew in my hand, and the modem
>     connector still firmly connected... oops.  It took several minutes of
>     screwing in, unscrewing, and wiggling around to get it out.  I have
>     used my dialup account on occasion when my ADSL ISP was down so I do
>     want to keep the dialup option.  I'll remove the thumbscrews before
>     inserting the connector onto my new machine.
> 
>   - the install CD couldn't find /dev/hda ... because the SATA drive
>     shows up as /dev/sda (dohhh)
> 
>   - when I first tried chrooting, it failed with an "Exec format error".
>     After a bit of googling, I finally figured out that I had grabbed my
>     ***32-bit X86*** Gentoo 2005.1 install CD and tried to install the
>     64-bit version (dohhh).  Download and burn the AMD64 install ISO, wipe
>     /dev/sda1 and restart.
> 
>   I've gone with 12 gigs for /dev/sda1, 2 gigs for /dev/sda5 (swap), and
> the rest of the drive is /dev/sda6, which will be mounted as /home.  I'm
> using ReiserFS, as the Gentoo AMD64 guide seems a bit dated, with
> references to 2004.3.  The references to 32-bit compilation are somewhat
> confusing.  It looks like I have two choices...
> 
>   1) Building my system with the "multilib" flag and *MANUALLY* building
> stuff with the "m32" flag.  Stuff should probably go to /usr/local.
> 
>   2) A complete chrooted environment into which I do a full-blown 32-bit
> X86 (*NOT* AMD64) install.
> 
> -- 
> Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
> My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca
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