On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:34:02 +1000
Adam Carter <adam.car...@optus.com.au> 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

ia64 is an arch for Intel Itanium server processors, a laptop should
have amd64-compatible processor, so just try this one.

-- 
Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net

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