[ltp] 64-bit Linux on core-2-duo's?

[Andrew J. Barr]

On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 18:59 +0000, Hamish wrote:
> On Friday 24 November 2006 13:59, Andrew J. Barr wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 12:49 +0000, Hamie wrote:
> > > Is anyone running  a 64bit distribution on a core2duo thinkpad out there
> > > yet? If so, which distribution, and what's it like? Any problems (Beyond
> > > no flash on web pages)?
> >
> > I run Debian unstable amd64 on a Core 2 Duo Intel Desktop Board machine.
> > It seems much faster than 32-bit...especially for stuff like encoding
> > video: I've been transcoding episodes of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" from
> > DVDs and each 30-minute episode takes about 10 minutes to resize and do
> > 2-pass XviD encoding.
> >
> 
> Ah bugger... 
> 
> I got my laptop, it arrived this afternoon. No-one was home when Amtrak 
> attempted to deliver at 11:32, but they tried again after 16:00, and saved me 
> having to goto Hayes tomorrow to pick it up (Which would have been 
> difficult... I forgot the car was in for a service tomorrow).
> 
> So. I opened & started the windows just enough to say 'No I don't accept your 
> license'. Took photos etc. Now to blow it away & install something decent on 
> it.
> 
> Booted into the BIOS menus. Disabled the trackpad (Useless thing)
> Sadly, the debian netinst for debian.31r3.amd64 doesn't boot... It seems to 
> have problems with ACPI (Hangs after the 'ACPI: Found ECDT' message). 

I had a devil of a time getting Debian on this machine...just keep
trying, I would recommend 'acpi=off' for installation. I had to do a
debootstrap from the grml live cd:

http://www.grml.org/

That was 32-bit however, I only recently converted to 64-bit.

> But the i386 31r4 netinst iso does boot... 
> 
> I'll post more as I get further... Nice looking piece of kit though... I like 
> the Titanium...
> 
> H