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

["Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>]

  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.

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca
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