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logandi
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 Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 2:19 pm Post subject: Gentoo 2005.0 amd64 users beware |
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Chapter 6 of the amd64 html handbook is significantly different from the x86 version. Read both!  |
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jjmac
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| Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 1:21 pm Post subject: RE: Gentoo 2005.0 amd64 users beware |
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That issue isn't out over here as yet. Could you brief some of it  (what hand book)
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nelz
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| Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 2:19 pm Post subject: RE: Gentoo 2005.0 amd64 users beware |
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The DVD includes copies of the Gentoo installation handbooks for x86, amd64 and ppc. It is important to use the correct handbook for your architecture. this point is made in the installation instructions i the magazine.
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jjmac
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| Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 11:54 pm Post subject: RE: Gentoo 2005.0 amd64 users beware |
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Aaha ...
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... this point is made in the installation instructions i the magazine.
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And i'm not surprised either (grin). It should be over here by months end, not long. Very much looking forward to it too, yes
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logandi
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| Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 10:08 pm Post subject: RE: Gentoo 2005.0 amd64 users beware |
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If you burn the amd64 iso from the DVD, it's the manual on the disc you've burned that's short.
The one on the DVD is okay, but the boot disc version misses out the bootstrapping section of chapter six.
I was half-expecting some fancy new build-kernel-then-bootstrap affair, but then "emerge gentoo-sources" crashed out pretty quickly. Not a problem if you're used to gentoo, bit cruel on noobs though... |
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nelz
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| Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 12:20 am Post subject: RE: Gentoo 2005.0 amd64 users beware |
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That's why the installation instructions in the magazine tell you to ignore the odcs on the ISO discs. They are for a stage 3 install.
It is important thet you read the instructions in the magazine fully before attempting to install Gentoo.
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Rhakios
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| Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 7:38 pm Post subject: RE: Gentoo 2005.0 amd64 users beware |
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You've not been wasting your time writing in the supplement that comes with the Linux Format discs again have you nelz? Does anybody read it (other than me)?
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