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strredwolf) wrote2006-03-03 09:51 pm
strredwolf) wrote2006-03-03 09:51 pm
Where are we now?
At 3pm I received the packages, and logged out of everything. My main rig is going 64-bits.
At... 6 hours and 30 minutes later I now have Xorg running with dual screens, Firefox up and running (thus me posting here), and PAM being removed because I hate it (recompiling 44 packages along the way, and probably glibc too, which would shrink it down). Unfortunately, I'm forced to use GRUB as a bootloader, but then wonder "Does it really read the filesystem at boot-time, yank the kernel into RAM, and start it off?"
My next step is to do a full reinstall of every package I had on there. Thankfully I tarballed the old Athlon XP-optimized install so I can refer back to it incase something ever did go wrong. Plus, I have a copy of my "world" file there. So if you don't see me on Second Life today, you know why.
At... 6 hours and 30 minutes later I now have Xorg running with dual screens, Firefox up and running (thus me posting here), and PAM being removed because I hate it (recompiling 44 packages along the way, and probably glibc too, which would shrink it down). Unfortunately, I'm forced to use GRUB as a bootloader, but then wonder "Does it really read the filesystem at boot-time, yank the kernel into RAM, and start it off?"
My next step is to do a full reinstall of every package I had on there. Thankfully I tarballed the old Athlon XP-optimized install so I can refer back to it incase something ever did go wrong. Plus, I have a copy of my "world" file there. So if you don't see me on Second Life today, you know why.