Hi Claudinei, > Actually I did installed gentoo at one dual Xeon 3.0 but I did > installed with p4 support instead of ia64 since I can't boot a ia64 > livecd to begin gentoo install. > I've looked for a livecd for ia64 architeture but I didn't found, so > I've tryed to use the amd64 livecd (I read in some places it could > work) and it boot up but I can't chroot into the ia64 stage1 > directory :/ > So I think you could use one previous debian for ia64 installation for > begin gentoo install if you have time to do it. I didn't 'cause I had > to put the machine to work quickly. I think I'll try it :) > By the way, the server is really fine, without any problem, and I > thinking to upgrade it to ia64 as soon as I order another server. > About the onboard devices, if you are using a SE7520BD2 from Intel you > may just have to compile LSI Pro Logic driver into the kernel and > boot-up without initrd or put these modules into the initrd if you > want initrd 'cause genkernel doesn't doit by default. > > Cheers to ia64 architeture, let me know if you able to do it. OK thanks very much for your help, so as soon as I get the hardware I'll try to install it onto the machines. If I could install it sucessfully I'll report it here in the list.
>>We get good prices from Dell, so what I >>want to ask, has anyone intstalled >>gentoo on Dell servers, especially with >>dual 64bit Intel Xeon CPUs, are there >>any obstacles, what about the onboard >>components, any trouble to install >>gentoo? >> >>Or would you recommend other hardware? Yours sincerley, M.Assion -- [email protected] mailing list
