[gentoo-user] Re: installing an amd k6

[james <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>]

darren kirby <bulliver <at> badcomputer.org> writes:


> > Note I used  stage3-i686-2006.1.tar.bz2
> > and portage-latest.tar.bz2

> Is the K6 a 686 though? I used to have an old K6 233 and seem to recall not 
> being able to install Arch Linux on it because it was a 686 optimized 
> distro...

> Is there a 586 tarball?


Hello Darren,

You must have ESP....
After banging my head around this install for a while, I looked at 
/etc/make.conf.examples:

<snip>

# Please note that if you experience strange issues with a package, it may be
# due to gcc's optimizations interacting in a strange way. Please test the
# package (and in some cases the libraries it uses) at default optimizations
# before reporting errors to developers.
#
# -mcpu=<cpu-type> means optimize code for the particular type of CPU without
# breaking compatibility with other CPUs. GCC 3.4 has deprecated support for
# -mcpu, so use -mtune instead if using this compiler.
#
# -march=<cpu-type> means to take full advantage of the ABI and instructions
# for the particular CPU; this will break compatibility with older CPUs (for
# example, -march=athlon-xp code will not run on a regular Athlon, and
# -march=i686 code will not run on a Pentium Classic.)
#
# CPU types supported in gcc-3.2 and higher: athlon-xp, athlon-mp,
# athlon-tbird, athlon, k6, k6-2, k6-3, i386, i486, i586 (Pentium), i686
# (PentiumPro), pentium, pentium-mmx, pentiumpro, pentium2 (Celeron),
# pentium3, and pentium4.
<end/snip>

So my next question, because googling produces nothing, is 
which arch to use for the k6?

Are you suggesting I use this in my make.conf file?
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i586 -pipe"
CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"

????

I've got to find an i586 iso now. 
Do you think 'stage1-x86-2006.1.tar.bz2' might work?
along with portage-latest.tar.bz2 ????

I was hoping to use an iso with glibc2.4, gcc4.1 and make.profile 2006.1

I'm not sure whether I should use a stage 3 or stage 1 tarball?
Ideas?


James



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