Alan McKinnon wrote: > I have one of those under my desk at home. Finally switched it off for > the last time about 2 months ago. > > So yes, you can run 64 bit Gentoo on it just fine. Make the > appropriate changes in make.conf and away you go. > > Just because distro X does not support cpu Y in mode Z does not mean > that the compiler doesn't support it. > > On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 5:15 AM, <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Does any body know if it's possible to set up gentoo on a single > core 64 bit athlon, old socket 754? I tried another distro and it > said it didn't support non-smp 64 bit. If not i'll have to put > some 32 bit os on it. I'm planning to use it mostly for a local > boot server for os installs or possibly firewall, maybe eventual > honey pot since it is low energy usage. I know it's not > supported by current BSD or windows. Thanks. > > mad.scientist.at.large (a good madscientist) > -- > > > > > -- > Alan McKinnon > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
If one were to boot a sysrescue image/disk/DVD, wouldn't that show whether Gentoo would work or not, since it is based off of Gentoo? If so, that would be a fast way to know for sure. Dale :-) :-)
