On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 04:15:57AM +0100, mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote > Does any body know if it's possible to set up gentoo on a single core > 64 bit athlon, old socket 754? I tried another distro and it said > it didn't support non-smp 64 bit. If not i'll have to put some 32 > bit os on it. I'm planning to use it mostly for a local boot server > for os installs or possibly firewall, maybe eventual honey pot since > it is low energy usage. I know it's not supported by current BSD > or windows. Thanks.
There are "athlons" and then there are "athlons". Check the gcc page https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-6.4.0/gcc/x86-Options.html#x86-Options for an idea of what's what. You need at least the "k8" version. The ultimate way to find out is to download the amd64 minimal install ISO https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Full/Installation#Obtain_the_media and try to boot off it. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
