if you're looking fora easy way to get quick access to SATA array, I'd try knoppix first since it's a no-effort attempt. Plus you can do the gentoo install from in the knoppix environment (never done this myself, but it sounds like a great idea). As far as amd64/gentoo gotchas, check out the technotes, they're a great resource:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/technotes.xml d On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 14:43:28 +0000, Qian Qiao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 09:09:22 -0500, Curtis Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've just assembled a Tyan S2875 with dual Opterons, a SATA raid 0 and a > > MSI NX 6800 Ultra graphics card. It has a Windows Pro XP partiotion ( > > for the kids games ) on 10% of the drive space. Are there any gotcha's > > installing Gentoo AMD 64? Should I install Slackware or Ubuntu on part > > of the drive space first in order have a working enviornment to access > > the SATA array? All help greatfully accepted! > > If you try a bootstrap, you'll get errors compiling gcc. The easiest > work around is: > A stage 3 install. compile ur kernel with the gcc that came with the > stage tarball. Boot ur system, see it boots ok. then do a > FEATURES="-sandbox" emerge -u gcc > followed by emerge portage. > > Then you can do the emerge --deep --newuse --update world. > > Don't have a SATA raid, so can't help with that. > > HTH > > -- Joe > > -- > Money can't buy everything. > Sometimes money can't even buy a gun... > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- [email protected] mailing list
