I'm now a Gentoon

I spent 5 hours on Friday installing Gentoo to my new playback PC
ASRock K10N78FullHD-hSLI motherboard with 2 GB DDR2 800Mhz RAM and Athlon X2 245 Dual Core 2.9 GHz 2MBL2 65W.

I'm booting it from a 2Gb Compact Flash card in a SATA <> CF device.

boof ~ # cat /etc/make.conf
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.virginmedia.com/sites/gentoo http://gentoo.virginmedia.com/ http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ "
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="-hal -dbus -kde -qt3 -qt4 -gnome fbcon -apache2 -aqua -cairo directfb dri gimp -gnustep -handbook -innodb -kontact mmx -mono -mssql -mysql -oci8 openmp -oracle postgres scanner smp sse sse2 ssl vnc x264 -xemacs xvid"
FEATURES="userfetch parallel-fetch"


I dd'd the sda2 partition to use as a vblade but it complains that it has no partition table so I'm going to build it from scratch

read speed from the CF is pretty good

I'm using AOE for /var and /usr/{portage, src}

I've just done ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" emerge plan9port
and it's dragging in the whole of X, which could well be a good thing

The vblade I'm using I made with qemu-img create so it uses sparse files, It has ballooned up to 1.1G. I can roll this back as I backed up sda{1,2} before doing it and have already rolled back once when I got caught out by umount.


warning casting double to int : I hope these people know what they are doing. I love Go's attitude : any errors - no build

bah, an error in libXtst and I'm SOL

reset from that, went back to text install pre plan9port, that obviously wants to go all XOrg on me. It locked up and the CF corrupted.

Got the framebuffer going, emerge cdrkit is wodim and friends, dvdauthor brought in imagemagick