Gentoo Linux Install Notes, Tips & Tricks on AMD64 Dual Core ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Littlefield Last Updated: 2006-12-05 11:53:11 Bug fix VMware 5.5.3 and Samba ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- * ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe Motherboard * AMD Athlon 64 Dual Core 4600+ Processor * 4Gb Corsair CM2X1024-6400C4PRO RAM * RAID 1 with 4 x WD2500KS Caviar SE 250Gb SATA2 Hard Drives * nVidia GeForce 7900 GTX 512Mb Graphics Card These notes will be finished when I have time. In the meantime, please refer to my notes on the AMD64 which I used to use :-) To Make NEW Notes On:- * RAID * ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hard Drive Partitioning device fdisk size fdisk id size mount sda1 +32M fd 32Mb /boot sda2 +1024M fd 1Gb swap sda3 +51200M fd 50Gb / sda4 remaining fd 200Gb /home ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package Install procedure (very rough notes) ~amd64 emerge ccache gentoolkit eix emerge --sync emerge portage emerge gcc (to latest) emerge --emptytree --update --deep --newuse world etc-update revdep-rebuild ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stage 4 Backup mkdir /home/root tar -cjvpf /home/root/stage4.tar.bz2 -X /root/stage4.excl / ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bug fix VMware 5.5.3 with Samba - Linux host, Windows XP guest The GUI would start, but I had the following 2 problems:- Problem #1 - black screen on virtual machine power on Cause - from log file, saw that virtual machine stops at detecting USB UHCI controller Fix - remove USB controller from virtual machine settings Problem #2 - cannot access host filesystem / very slow access Cause - very fast gigabit network cards have to fragment packets Fix - remove the TSO (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_segmentation_offloading) option from host and guest Details - in Linux, install the 'ethtool' package and type the command 'ethtool -K eth0 tso off' in Windows, Control Panel > System > Hardware > Device Manager > Network Adapter > VMware Accelerated AMD PCNet Adapter > Advanced > TsoEnable > Value: 0 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------