Bad news... my 1.8 ghz P4 died recently and I'm now running on my emergency backup 6-year-old Dell (450 mhz PIII and 128 megs of RAM). Let's just say that editing 2560 X 1920 digital photos in GIMP is a "rather liesurely" process. Good news... Saturday, I'm picking up... 64bit AMD 3000BP (with SSE3 !!!) AMD 939pin Athlon 64bit 3000+ Retail Box Giga-Byte K8NF-9 MB Firewire A & B 2 gigs (OK, so I pigged out) DDR400 SATA2 WD1600JS 160G 7200 8M 3G SONY 1.44 Floppy Drive LG 4163B 16X DVD±RW & DVDRAM PCI-E16X ATI X300HyperMem256MTVDV 227/206 Tower Case w Power & Front USB Audio, Gigabit Lan, Firewire A & B This'll be my first linux install that won't be 32-bit Intel. I've been reading the AMD64 install docs on the Gentoo.org website. The big items I've noticed are... - stick with ext2fs/ext3fs with all other filesystems being unstable - do not enable kernel pre-emption if I want firewire to work - enable 32-bit emulation for some apps I notice that the AMD64 Gentoo install manual at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml only lists GRUB. Does LILO not work on AMD64? I intend to use the following partition layout... - / 8 gigs - swap 2 gigs - /var 8 gigs - /home gets the rest of the drive. There'll be tons of my garbage under /home/misc. /usr/local and /opt will be symlinks on / with the actual files sitting in /home/misc/local and /home/misc/opt. This layout reflects my experiences from my Windows and Redhat days. Keep the OS on its own partition, so you can blow away and re-install or install the next version as required. Anything else to watch for when installing on AMD64? -- Walter Dnes My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list