On Thursday 16 April 2009 13:34:02 Adam Carter wrote: > Much like http://bugs.gentoo.org/26150 the ia64 boot cd is not recognised > and the bios falls through to boot the hard disk. Knoppix boots fine, but > if i were to try to install from 32 bit knoppix it will fail as soon as I > chroot as i would then be attempting to run 64 bit binaries from the stage3 > tarball using the 32 bit knoppix kernel. Do i understand that correctly? > And if so, what are my options for installing 64 bit gentoo? > > tnx
First, no HTML mail here. The majority of users don't like it. Second, you can't use ia64 on a Dell laptop - I sincerely doubt you have Itanium chips in it. You want amd64. You other question is correct, you can't run 64 bit stuff from a 32 bit kernel. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
