I have a bit of a situation as I plan to do upgrade/install gentoo
for the following systems:
(All these systems are currently running gentoo (2.6.11) with
the portage snapshot of 20051009)
System Processor./HW some info.
[1] Cyrix c7 Runs mythtv, head-less,
udev
Mini-ITX based very slow compilation
[2] AMD64 My desktop, devfs, 32-bit
nForce4 based nvidia binary drivers
Plan to install
64-bit gentoo ina
separate
partition
[3] P3 - compaq desktop, dual boot with
win98
laptop working (old) wine
installation, devfs
[4] P4 Planned gentoo
install, dual boot with
winxp
I would like to upgrade/install gentoo on all these systems to the
current version ( Mythtv-0.20, X.org 7.1, gcc 4.1, kernel >=2.6.18) .
All of them have only the few strictly needed apps, no bloat.
I have a few questions in this regard
- As the mythtv box is very slow for compilations, is it possible to
build
a binary distribution for that configuration on a differ machine
(system [2]) ? Last time (Oct.2005) when the stage3 install was done,
I had to
put the CFLAGS as "march=i586 -m3dnow" for a stable system. How to
do that in a binary distribution build?
- As the network connection is a slow dialup connection, I would like to
download everything before the upgrade. I have with me 2006.1 i686 and
AMD64 livecd, portage-20061025 snapshot, i686 stage3 tarballs, X.org
7.1, gcc 4.1 distfiles. Plan to start with 2006.1 install and then
switch to a
more current snapshot. At what point in the install should I switch ?
- Are there any hints for choosing a portage snapshot ? I took
portage-20061025 since it was downloaded couple of weeks back.
- Are the i686 release source tarballs ok for 64-bit gentoo also ?
Any other advise /hints ?
Thanks
sathish
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