no i586 stage3 tarball?

neighbors · n00b Joined: 13 Feb 2006 Posts: 2

I have a bit of a dilema and haven't been able to find the answer on these forums, the docs, or google so I figured I'd ask here

I am putting gentoo on an AMD K6 machine and in the past I did stage1 installs and set the CHOST to i586. I see that now stage2 and stage1 are unsupported so I figured I'd try stage3 but alas there is no i586 stage3 tarball

So if I install x86 from stage3 it says I cannot alter CHOST from i386 to i586.

Is there a different stage3 tarball I should be using? (options are athlon-xp,i686,pentium3,pentium4,x86)

The only thing I can think of is to do an x86 install and just live with a 386 CHOST which seems a little strange considering the flexibility the old stage1 install had

Thanks for any help

Catch-22 · Apprentice Joined: 22 Oct 2004 Posts: 244

what processor do you have?

neighbors · n00b Joined: 13 Feb 2006 Posts: 2

AMD K6-230

Catch-22 · Apprentice Joined: 22 Oct 2004 Posts: 244

my bad, I didn't read your post correctly :/

it would appear that a stage 3 i586 tarball will be avaliable for 2006.0
http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org/msg00173.html

I can't think of any options apart from accepting the x86 CFLAGS or doing stage 1 again atm..

barbiturate · n00b Joined: 20 Feb 2006 Posts: 1

Hi.

I encountered the same perplex with my future Gentoo router/server (AMD K6-2, 550).

Now: if 2006.0 will include stage 3 with the i586 tarball, should I wait for it or should I just go with the i386 CHOST?

Given that performance is not going to be an such optimum for this machine, and that there is no life without a firewall and iptables, I would personally choose the i386.

Would you say that there might be some reason not to?

Thanks.

b.