On Saturday 27 August 2005 05:41, Walter Dnes wrote: > This'll be my first linux install that won't be 32-bit Intel. I've
Congratulations! you've made a wonderful choice 8-) > 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 oh? for almost a year now I have an AMD64 system and I've used reiserfs for all my filesystems without any problems! so I can really recommend reiserfs but I can't say anything about other filesystems... > - do not enable kernel pre-emption if I want firewire to work I don't know about firewire and preemtion since I don't have firewire. But recent kernels have two preemt options: full and voluntary preemtion maybe you can try both and see what happens. > - enable 32-bit emulation for some apps yup, if you want to use Flash then you need a 32-bit browser. to use win32 codecs you need a 32-bit mplayer. > 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? never tried to use lilo on AMD64, since I switched from lilo to grub and never want to go back. > I intend to use the following partition layout... > - / 8 gigs a little tiny: your /usr gets very big when you have a lot of programs (Gentoo installs everything on /usr by default) and your posrtage cache easily reaches ~3GB... I suggest to create a /usr partition of ~8GB and a / of ~2GB > - 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. in Gentoo /usr/local is almost not used: du /usr/local only lists empty dirs. so this can just reside on the /usr partition > 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? not that I know of, so have fun with your new system! Rudmer -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
