* [gentoo-user] Any booby-traps with AMD64?
@ 2005-08-27 3:41 99% Walter Dnes
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From: Walter Dnes @ 2005-08-27 3:41 UTC (permalink / raw
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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?
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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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