|C0NRAD| Install V400 | "Flying Colors" | #(Number) 1?

supermihi · Guru Joined: 09 Feb 2005 Posts: 348

I have a big warning :

In the make.conf for athlon64 it says you should change your ARCH=i686 to athlon64 (if you have an athlon64, of course). This is then used by CFLAGS with the -march option.

However I found out that setting ARCH in make.conf has some odd side effects, especially since portage assumes this to be amd64 and not athlon64 on such systems. This leads e.g. to the following bug I commited:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=175466

So you should not set ARCH=athlon64 but instead write the -march=athlon64 in the CFLAGS line.
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laidback_01 · n00b Joined: 23 Jun 2005 Posts: 12

In section 11.1 you have:
emerge gentoo-sources
cd /usr/src/linux
rm linux

It should be:
emerge gentoo-sources
cd /usr/src
rm linux

and in section 12.1
you have kernel
/vmlinuz-2.6.18-no2 root=/dev/hda3

it should be
/vmlinuz-2.6.20-no2 root=/dev/hda3

anyway, the guide is working well for me, I'm have a few slight issues with getting the kernel to boot, but I think I'll get past it. If not, I'll post a request for help

laidback_01 · n00b Joined: 23 Jun 2005 Posts: 12

Hey, others might be having this same issue, but I could not get no-sources to boot for me - not gentoo-sources either.

the problem ended up being that I was trying to load the agp for Intel which didn't support my chipset (946gz in my case), and would cause an oops. The oops always blamed the smp, no idea why there.

anyway, disabling the AGP chipset - leave the agp in place, just lose the chipset driver if you are having issues -that's what fixed it for me.

Also, for people having trouble with some of the CC flags or CXX flags that conrad uses, eg some packages wont compile, you can set CC, and CXX flags per package in /etc/portage. It's actually in the bashrc, there are several examples for how to do this, I had issues with gmp, had to include -fPIC for it, and I didn't want to make that set for every package, and was able to do that via /etc/portage/bashrc.

hopefully that helps someone!

aldo_a · Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 5:00 pm Post subject:

Hi all,

First of all a big thanks to Conrad for his great guide!!
Up to the point know ... The following odd thing happened today ...
Apart from my / (root) partition i use ext4 in my /home partition as well. So during boot time fsck time had come for /home which gave an enormous amount of errors saying (more or less) that the extents flag is set for /home partition but there are no extents (This was for every inode in the filesystem!!). After fscking finished, I can see with tune2fs -l that my home partition does not have extents anymore (although option is there in the fstab as it is for my / ) . So I was wondering what could the cause of that? Moreover I just realized that my / partition doesn't have journal_data in the "Default mount options" where as my /home partition does (Could I just have missed the -o journal_data during the initial setup?? - seems very strange since usually is such cases i use the bash history and just changing the partitions letters!!). Anyway .. is it preferred to disable fsck on boot when using ext4? And moreover has anyone tried using ext4 ordered mode over journal?? Any improvement in performance??

Ty a lot!!
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cheater1034 · Veteran Joined: 09 Sep 2004 Posts: 1551

Visceral · Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 8:04 pm Post subject:

Well, I do want to give this another fresh start, but I have a few questions. Is it possible to set it up from within Ubuntu as with a normal version of gentoo? I want to use ext4 but I'm not sure I can do it without the conrad setup cd. I know I can do an alternate setup for a normal gentoo install, but where would I plug conrad into that instead?
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cruzki · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 Dec 2005 Posts: 137

I think that maybe this is over the scoop of the guide but, it's possible to the final guide include options to test the alpha of kde4 that come on Thursday (3 may)?

ReD-BaRoN · Apprentice Joined: 06 Feb 2004 Posts: 208

I have a question on this command:

tune2fs -O has_journal -o journal_data /dev/hdxy

Should I be running tune2fs on any fs other than /, which would /dev/hdx3? I guess I'm wondering why the y is there.

Thanks!

aldo_a · Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 11:17 am Post subject:

ReD-BaRoN · Apprentice Joined: 06 Feb 2004 Posts: 208

You can take the /dev/ out off the profile links now, no?

cheater1034 · Veteran Joined: 09 Sep 2004 Posts: 1551

jt_ · n00b Joined: 15 Mar 2007 Posts: 61

I'm curious as to how an install like this compares to a standard installation in terms of tangible performance gains.

Has anyone actually done any benchmarking?

ReD-BaRoN · Apprentice Joined: 06 Feb 2004 Posts: 208

dr.bombay · n00b Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 39 Location: Los Angeles

cheater-conrad, again, as it has already been said, you and your team are the bomb, have a problem that has already been mention and a ?, in regards to a another subject that was mentioned, first the some one mentioned have had a problem with ffmpeg and the -combine flag, I would like to know if it is possible to disable it in the bashrc for certain apps, like ffmpeg, also, and I don't mean to offend, could you explain to me the correct way to add --as-needed and -znow, or if you strongly disgree with this idea, please explain, as you well know your opinion is highly regarded by I.
cheater-conrad, and all of you here thanks for the wisdom and know how that you provide for the nOOb like myself.
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cheater1034 · Veteran Joined: 09 Sep 2004 Posts: 1551

kernelOfTruth · Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 5:29 pm Post subject:

as --as-needed is concerned, you definitely are right, but -z,now works perfectly for me (is this the same?):

aldo_a · Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 1:50 pm Post subject:

Hi guys,

Can I ask for your enlightenment since my fs knowledge varies from limited to none!!
Once we write to a partition that is formatted as ext4 and mounted as "-t ext4dev -o extents" we do have a pure ext4 partition that is no more compatible with ext2, ext3.
How are we supposed to fsck this partition in case smth goes wrong? Mounted with "-o extents"? Unmounted? Why if i try to "e2fsck -Dy" to a clean ext4 partition it turns out that most of my inodes has the EXTENTS FLAG on but is not in extents format?
I try to do a research on the topic the last couple of days but with no success, so I ll appreciate your help.

Cheers!!
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whitesouls · Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 7:28 am Post subject:

is there going to be a release of conrad with InitNG?

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R.B.Riddick · n00b Joined: 28 Nov 2006 Posts: 10

Does the new e2fsprogs-1.40... in portage have support for ext4? :?:

ReD-BaRoN · Apprentice Joined: 06 Feb 2004 Posts: 208

cheater,

Have you tested setting the mount option nodiratime in addition to noatime?

Thanks!

cheater1034 · Veteran Joined: 09 Sep 2004 Posts: 1551

dr.bombay · n00b Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 39 Location: Los Angeles

hello all, I am trying to install exaile media player so that I can replace amarok, but I cannot get pass this problem, "http://pastebin.ca/476559" , and was hoping that some here would help with a solution.
Thanks in advance for assistance
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macleod · n00b Joined: 09 May 2007 Posts: 31

why does it give an illegal instruction error after you emerge the binutils glibc then do etc-update

seren · Guru Joined: 27 Aug 2005 Posts: 448 Location: Wisconsin

__g_blade · Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 8:55 am Post subject:

I like your work, conrad. So i told Ubuntu people to compare their next distro, the "Gutsy Gibbon", to your work.

Perhaps they can make their stuff a little more faster

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=436765
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