Hi, What Dell Laptop do you have?. because I tried to install Gentoo amd64 in a E4300 and it fails, did not recognize the ethernet and some problems install packages.
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Mike Kazantsev <mike_kazant...@fraggod.net>wrote: > 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 > -- Francisco Rivas http://www.vaslibre.org.ve - And on the seventh day God said :wq and then make http://beck3r.wordpress.com/ Linux User (New) : #448324 Linux Machine (New) : 355187
