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 4.43) id 1E8tG3-00072f-OH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 27 Aug 2005 05:29:36 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7R5RCoJ030155; Sat, 27 Aug 2005 05:27:12 GMT Received: from legolas.dynup.net (bv-n-3b5d.adsl.wanadoo.nl [212.129.187.93]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7R5NfUx001948 for ; Sat, 27 Aug 2005 05:23:42 GMT Received: (qmail 304 invoked from network); 27 Aug 2005 07:25:08 +0200 Received: from unknown (HELO gandalf) (192.168.20.28) by legolas with SMTP; 27 Aug 2005 07:25:08 +0200 From: Rudmer van Dijk To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Any booby-traps with AMD64? Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 07:25:11 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <20050827034110.GA23024@waltdnes.org> In-Reply-To: <20050827034110.GA23024@waltdnes.org> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200508270725.11881.rudmer@legolas.dynup.net> X-Archives-Salt: f2575cd5-7641-4bd0-b07d-74afa27168d2 X-Archives-Hash: ced93486115d124f3e50dac77e298b33 On Saturday 27 August 2005 05:41, Walter Dnes wrote: > This'll be my first linux install that won't be 32-bit Intel. I've Congratulations! you've made a wonderful choice 8-) > 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 oh? for almost a year now I have an AMD64 system and I've used reiserfs for all my filesystems without any problems! so I can really recommend reiserfs but I can't say anything about other filesystems... > - do not enable kernel pre-emption if I want firewire to work I don't know about firewire and preemtion since I don't have firewire. But recent kernels have two preemt options: full and voluntary preemtion maybe you can try both and see what happens. > - enable 32-bit emulation for some apps yup, if you want to use Flash then you need a 32-bit browser. to use win32 codecs you need a 32-bit mplayer. > 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? never tried to use lilo on AMD64, since I switched from lilo to grub and never want to go back. > I intend to use the following partition layout... > - / 8 gigs a little tiny: your /usr gets very big when you have a lot of programs (Gentoo installs everything on /usr by default) and your posrtage cache easily reaches ~3GB... I suggest to create a /usr partition of ~8GB and a / of ~2GB > - 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. in Gentoo /usr/local is almost not used: du /usr/local only lists empty dirs. so this can just reside on the /usr partition > 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? not that I know of, so have fun with your new system! Rudmer -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list