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

[Hamie]

On Tuesday 28 November 2006 11:11, Macskasi Csaba wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:30:26 +0100, Hamie <hamish@travellingkiwi.com>
>
> wrote:
> > On Monday 27 November 2006 19:10, Evgeni Golov wrote:
> >> On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:59:51 +0000 Hamish wrote:
> >> > 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).
> >> >
> >> > But the i386 31r4 netinst iso does boot...
> >>
> >> Try recent netinst for Etch, they have a much newer kernel and should
> >> work better on new hardware.
> >
> > Hmm.. Thanks for that. But where? All the links I can find are still
> > 31r3 or
> > 31r4 (Kernel 2.6.17 [and maybe others] seems to have a problem with the
> > tg3
> > driver).
> >
> > I'm not sure which kernel ubuntu was using, but the drums & non-working
> > interface did my head in.
> >
> > I did get Knoppix working... Sort of... The DHCP client worked, but I
> > was only
> > receiving, and not sending... So I unloaded & re-loaded tg3, and set
> > the  IP
> > by hand, and hey presto. It worked... I have to see now if I can
> > duplicate
> > the feat.
>
> So what is your problem? Boot knoppix, set up your network interface and
> install debian manually using debootstrap from your favortite mirror.

Sorry. I lost the original intent... I like debian 32bit, but AFAIK debian 
64bit is pure64. It doesn't do multilib. (Correct me if I'm wrong). The 
intent is to actually install gentoo... (Which may come down to the same 
method yet, it's how I originally put gentoo on my desktop from Redhat).

Of course having a single CD or DVD that just works is better for recovery in 
the future... Especially when in a hurry.

H