From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GlLQ1-0004gr-Dn for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 08:19:21 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kAI8H1oD016470; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 08:17:01 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kAI8DCIR021914 for ; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 08:13:13 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF64A643F8 for ; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 08:13:11 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: 4.169 X-Spam-Level: **** X-Spam-Status: No, score=4.169 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=1.298, BAYES_00=-2.599, DATE_IN_FUTURE_03_06=1.961, DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE=0.2, DNS_FROM_RFC_POST=1.708, DNS_FROM_RFC_WHOIS=1.447, TW_EV=0.077, TW_NX=0.077] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 8IBGmgZ4MkMX for ; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 08:13:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fe1.vsnl.net (fe1.vsnl.net [203.200.235.171]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2EB56454B for ; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 08:12:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fe1.internal.vsnl.net ([172.16.28.188]) by fe1.internal.vsnl.net (vsnl mail server fe1) with ESMTP id <0J8X00IRB2JDZIC0@fe1.internal.vsnl.net> for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 13:36:49 +0530 (IST) Received: from PPP-219.65.138.18.bgl.dialup.vsnl.net.in ([219.65.138.18]) by fe1.internal.vsnl.net (vsnl mail server fe1) with ESMTPA id <0J8X00I722IVYD50@fe1.internal.vsnl.net> for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 13:36:49 +0530 (IST) Content-return: prohibited Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 13:50:58 +0000 From: Sathish Vasudevaiah Subject: [gentoo-user] Seeking advise for gentoo install/upgrade Sender: svholla@vsnl.net To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <1163857858.9740.0.camel@tej> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Archives-Salt: c14d6cc7-78a2-4c48-b28d-c0e8b4d9f22b X-Archives-Hash: cc5558bb54ffd55365e874aeb6027f38 I have a bit of a situation as I plan to do upgrade/install gentoo for the following systems: (All these systems are currently running gentoo (2.6.11) with the portage snapshot of 20051009) System Processor./HW some info. [1] Cyrix c7 Runs mythtv, head-less, udev Mini-ITX based very slow compilation [2] AMD64 My desktop, devfs, 32-bit nForce4 based nvidia binary drivers Plan to install 64-bit gentoo ina separate partition [3] P3 - compaq desktop, dual boot with win98 laptop working (old) wine installation, devfs [4] P4 Planned gentoo install, dual boot with winxp I would like to upgrade/install gentoo on all these systems to the current version ( Mythtv-0.20, X.org 7.1, gcc 4.1, kernel >=2.6.18) . All of them have only the few strictly needed apps, no bloat. I have a few questions in this regard - As the mythtv box is very slow for compilations, is it possible to build a binary distribution for that configuration on a differ machine (system [2]) ? Last time (Oct.2005) when the stage3 install was done, I had to put the CFLAGS as "march=i586 -m3dnow" for a stable system. How to do that in a binary distribution build? - As the network connection is a slow dialup connection, I would like to download everything before the upgrade. I have with me 2006.1 i686 and AMD64 livecd, portage-20061025 snapshot, i686 stage3 tarballs, X.org 7.1, gcc 4.1 distfiles. Plan to start with 2006.1 install and then switch to a more current snapshot. At what point in the install should I switch ? - Are there any hints for choosing a portage snapshot ? I took portage-20061025 since it was downloaded couple of weeks back. - Are the i686 release source tarballs ok for 64-bit gentoo also ? Any other advise /hints ? Thanks sathish -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list