I've got my bright shiney (would you believe dull beige-coloured?) new
toy, and I'm working on the install now. A few anxious newbie moments...
- when I tried unscrewing the dialup-modem-connector cable from my old
machine, I ended up with the thumbscrew in my hand, and the modem
connector still firmly connected... oops. It took several minutes of
screwing in, unscrewing, and wiggling around to get it out. I have
used my dialup account on occasion when my ADSL ISP was down so I do
want to keep the dialup option. I'll remove the thumbscrews before
inserting the connector onto my new machine.
- the install CD couldn't find /dev/hda ... because the SATA drive
shows up as /dev/sda (dohhh)
- when I first tried chrooting, it failed with an "Exec format error".
After a bit of googling, I finally figured out that I had grabbed my
***32-bit X86*** Gentoo 2005.1 install CD and tried to install the
64-bit version (dohhh). Download and burn the AMD64 install ISO, wipe
/dev/sda1 and restart.
I've gone with 12 gigs for /dev/sda1, 2 gigs for /dev/sda5 (swap), and
the rest of the drive is /dev/sda6, which will be mounted as /home. I'm
using ReiserFS, as the Gentoo AMD64 guide seems a bit dated, with
references to 2004.3. The references to 32-bit compilation are somewhat
confusing. It looks like I have two choices...
1) Building my system with the "multilib" flag and *MANUALLY* building
stuff with the "m32" flag. Stuff should probably go to /usr/local.
2) A complete chrooted environment into which I do a full-blown 32-bit
X86 (*NOT* AMD64) install.
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