[gentoo-user] stage3 for notebook/pentium-m

[gentoo-user] stage3 for notebook/pentium-m

[Jarry]

Hi Gentoo-fans,

I want to install gentoo on my pentium-m (centrino 2)
based notebook, but I do not know which stage3 should
I download and use: i586, i686 or x86?
And which -march setting should I define for Pentium-M?

Jarry

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Re: [gentoo-user] stage3 for notebook/pentium-m

[Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales]

http://gentoo-wiki.com/Safe_Cflags#Pentium-M_.2F_Centrino_.28Intel.29

Hope this answers you.

2006/3/30, Jarry <jarry@gmx.net>:
> Hi Gentoo-fans,
>
> I want to install gentoo on my pentium-m (centrino 2)
> based notebook, but I do not know which stage3 should
> I download and use: i586, i686 or x86?
> And which -march setting should I define for Pentium-M?
>
> Jarry
>
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Re: [gentoo-user] stage3 for notebook/pentium-m

[Willie Wong]

On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 07:04:56PM +0200, Penguin Lover Jarry squawked:
> I want to install gentoo on my pentium-m (centrino 2)
> based notebook, but I do not know which stage3 should
> I download and use: i586, i686 or x86?

The livecd-i686-installer should be fine. 

> And which -march setting should I define for Pentium-M?

Depends: if you intend to use gcc 3.3.x, then you'd have to go with
pentium3, if you want to use gcc 3.4.x and above, then you can use
-march=pentium-m

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Re: [gentoo-user] stage3 for notebook/pentium-m

[jarry]

Thanks to everyone who replied (Willie, Daniel, Todor...)

Just out of curiosity: how long (approximately) does it take
to install a common gentoo-desktop (with X+KDE) on a notebook
(pentium-m 1.6GHz, 1GB RAM)? So that I knew how much time
to reserve for it...

BTW, I'm a little afraid of possible overheating, as notebooks
are usually not expected to work under high load for long time...

Jarry

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Re: [gentoo-user] stage3 for notebook/pentium-m

[Heinz Sporn]

Am Freitag, den 31.03.2006, 10:12 +0200 schrieb jarry@gmx.net:
> Thanks to everyone who replied (Willie, Daniel, Todor...)
> 
> Just out of curiosity: how long (approximately) does it take
> to install a common gentoo-desktop (with X+KDE) on a notebook
> (pentium-m 1.6GHz, 1GB RAM)? So that I knew how much time
> to reserve for it...

I have a 1.6 GHz Pentium-M with 512 MB RAM and I find that little beast
a noch faster than my P4 2.4 desktop with 512 MB. I compiled a full
blown Gnome environment including Firefox and OpenOffice 2 in less then
a day. I didn't recognize temperature issues - every now and then the
cooler turned on for a couple of minutes and that was it.

> 
> BTW, I'm a little afraid of possible overheating, as notebooks
> are usually not expected to work under high load for long time...
> 
> Jarry
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] stage3 for notebook/pentium-m

[Willie Wong]

On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 11:03:58AM +0200, Penguin Lover Heinz Sporn squawked:
> Am Freitag, den 31.03.2006, 10:12 +0200 schrieb jarry@gmx.net:
> > Thanks to everyone who replied (Willie, Daniel, Todor...)
> > 
> > Just out of curiosity: how long (approximately) does it take
> > to install a common gentoo-desktop (with X+KDE) on a notebook
> > (pentium-m 1.6GHz, 1GB RAM)? So that I knew how much time
> > to reserve for it...
> 
> I have a 1.6 GHz Pentium-M with 512 MB RAM and I find that little beast
> a noch faster than my P4 2.4 desktop with 512 MB. I compiled a full
> blown Gnome environment including Firefox and OpenOffice 2 in less then
> a day. I didn't recognize temperature issues - every now and then the
> cooler turned on for a couple of minutes and that was it.
> 

My experience is similar, though I'd say my laptop and desktop are
just about as fast (1.6PM+512ram vs 2.0P4+512ram). My last 
'emerge -e world' on the laptop took just under 2 days: I don't
have any large packages like KDE or Gnome or OO, but that's also with
a lot of crap that I installed which is not necessary for a base
system. 

If you leave you laptop in a well ventilated area, overheating
shouldn't be an issue. 

As a side question, there used to be an option with 'genlop' which you
can pipe to it the output from 'emerge --pretend' and show the
expected total merge time. Is there a way of doing this with 'qlop'? 

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Re: [gentoo-user] stage3 for notebook/pentium-m

[daniel]

On Thursday 30 March 2006 12:04, Jarry wrote:
> I want to install gentoo on my pentium-m (centrino 2)
> based notebook, but I do not know which stage3 should
> I download and use: i586, i686 or x86?
> And which -march setting should I define for Pentium-M?

You should be alright with i686 and you should use "-march=pentium-m":

  http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.4.4/gcc/i386-and-x86_002d64-Options.html


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Re: [gentoo-user] stage3 for notebook/pentium-m

[Todor Tzankov]

On Thursday 30 March 2006 20:04, Jarry wrote:
> Hi Gentoo-fans,
>
> I want to install gentoo on my pentium-m (centrino 2)
> based notebook, but I do not know which stage3 should
> I download and use: i586, i686 or x86?
> And which -march setting should I define for Pentium-M?
>
> Jarry

You can safely use i686 tarballs. 
For the -march option it depends on the gcc version you are planning to use - 
for versions <=3.3 use -march=pentium3, for version >= 3.4 you can use 
-march=pentium-m /this is what I use /

Tushe
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