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aerojun n00b
Joined: 05 Jul 2011 Posts: 2
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 4:11 am Post subject: [Gentoo] Cant install Gentoo [SOLVED] |
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Hi guys, i'm new here. Well, i'm trying to install Gentoo on a virtual Machine using Virtual Box.
I downloaded both iso x86 and amd64. But when installing:
AMD64 ISO (screen capture)
x86 ISO (screen capture)
My laptop specs:
-Core i5 M 460 @2.53 Ghz
-64bit instruction set
-3GB RAM
-Intel HD graphics
I dont know what iso to use or any other solution it may have.
Hope someone can help me.
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DaggyStyle Watchman
Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 5910
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Whitewolf Fox Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 29 Aug 2004 Posts: 78 Location: Ratingen
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 1:31 pm Post subject: Re: [Gentoo] Cant install Gentoo [pending] |
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aerojun wrote: | Hi guys, i'm new here. Well, i'm trying to install Gentoo on a virtual Machine using Virtual Box.
I downloaded both iso x86 and amd64. But when installing:
AMD64 ISO (screen capture)
x86 ISO (screen capture)
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You can use a 64 Bit VM only on an 64 Bit host. Not on an 32 Bit host. But you can create and run both, 32 and 64 Bit VMs on a 64 Bit host.
I haven't checked the links provided by DaggyStyle, but the x86 Screenshot looks like you either have to enable that feature in BIOS of you host (often callen something with virtualization) or set the PAE Flag in the VM. You can find this in the VM's Settings -> System -> Tab: Processor
I hope this helps. _________________ http://www.marc-richter.info |
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DaggyStyle Watchman
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 2:10 pm Post subject: Re: [Gentoo] Cant install Gentoo [pending] |
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Whitewolf Fox wrote: | aerojun wrote: | Hi guys, i'm new here. Well, i'm trying to install Gentoo on a virtual Machine using Virtual Box.
I downloaded both iso x86 and amd64. But when installing:
AMD64 ISO (screen capture)
x86 ISO (screen capture)
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You can use a 64 Bit VM only on an 64 Bit host. Not on an 32 Bit host. But you can create and run both, 32 and 64 Bit VMs on a 64 Bit host.
I haven't checked the links provided by DaggyStyle, but the x86 Screenshot looks like you either have to enable that feature in BIOS of you host (often callen something with virtualization) or set the PAE Flag in the VM. You can find this in the VM's Settings -> System -> Tab: Processor
I hope this helps. |
afaik, you cannot enable cpu features in the bios and PAE is a cpu feature, but I could be wrong here... _________________ Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the former - Albert Einstein |
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Whitewolf Fox Tux's lil' helper
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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Not single features, but the ability of the processor to enable these virtualization - options ... don't know what this was called right now. _________________ http://www.marc-richter.info |
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krinn Watchman
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 7:44 pm Post subject: |
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I would consider the 32bits install kernel with PAE enable a bug.
Having a PAE ready kernel will just enable users in 32bits to use more than 4G ram : so (and this is the case here) this is useless for <4G ram user. and this is "nearly" useless for users with more than 4G. Without it, 4G+ users will get 4G only, no big deal, they will just loose the ability to create big cache and things like that, not a real usage of that memory, and this will only affect them at install, once they build their own PAE ready kernel and boot it, everything will get as it should.
PAE also slow down memory access, and why slow down memory access if you are about to just access <4G of ram.
So no, having PAE enable in a kernel is more a bugging feature than a good feature and this shouldn't be enable per default. |
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aerojun n00b
Joined: 05 Jul 2011 Posts: 2
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Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 2:45 am Post subject: |
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Thank you all.
I'll check the documents. |
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yoshi314 l33t
Joined: 30 Dec 2004 Posts: 850 Location: PL
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Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2011 8:59 am Post subject: |
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or you could try booting other live linux iso, e.g. system rescue cd (also gentoo based).
afaik it's compiled for older cpu's, maybe it doesn't need pae. _________________ ~amd64
shrink your /usr/portage with squashfs+aufs |
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vfxectropy n00b
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