As promised in my very first post I'm now going to give Gentoo another shot.

The hardware platform in question is pretty straight forward.
It's an Asus Eee PC 1015PEM with 2 gigs of RAM, an Intel atom N550, Danish keyboard layout and so on and so forth. I'm quite sure about all the parts, but I'm sure you can help me out when it comes to that.

All in all, as long as I can get the wireless to work, I'm happy, though I'd also like USB tethering with my HTC Legend to work.

I'm going to do the install via SSH, for easy sharing of data. As far as I know, it shouldn't course trouble, but please let me know if I'm mistaken.

If everything goes to plan, you should be able to see my progress here, though it may not work. If it don't, I'll find another way.

Anyway, I usually do okay up until I have to mess around with the use flags and kernel configuration, so you probably won't hear a lot from me to start with.

But now to the essentials.
I'm going to run pure 64 bit, no multilib profile, no swap partition and, unless you give me a good reason, no boot partition. It's simpler that way I think.

So basically, the partitioning scheme will simply be one large ext4 partition.

After that, if nothing goes wrong, which it may, as I've never tried this particular approach before, the CFLAGS are of interest.

-march=atom -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer

Seem like a good start, but please advice. Remember, I'm trying to achieve perfection here

Then there's the makeopts, which usually do little more than to confuse me. I usually just set it to the recommended number of cores + 1, but I really have no idea what the argumentation is for this. In my mind it should either be 2 or 4, number of cores or threads, so if you have anything interesting to say on this subject, please do let me know.

Then it's time to configure the USE variables and the kernel.

The USE variables... Well, they're confusing. Up until now I've basically let them be as is, but for a hyper minimalistic and optimised system, I'd really like a lot of help on that part, I just don't know where to start.

And when it comes to the kernel configuration... HELP!
Basically I'm out of my league here. Some things seem to make sense, but most don't.

And this is basically as far as I've ever gotten with this computer, cause after that, when trying to emerge the essentials, everything just seem to fail for no apparent reason.

Lastly I'll just describe the goal in it's entirety.
Installing a Gentoo base on my Asus Eee PC 1015PEM, imagining that is has got an SSD, as it eventually will (no, I'm not going to turn journalling off just yet)

I don't care about the blutooth and webcam, but wireless, sound and such basic stuff should work.

After that I'll throw in FluxBox and then I'm Basically done.

Later on, I should also be able to run a basic local webserver. PHP apache and mysql, but for now that is not important.

Guess that's it for now, though I've probably forgotten something important.


See you all later

Sometimes -march=native will yield a better result.

You can check what this would result in with:

number of cores + 1
This is safe.
This is a good reference:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...1/#post4393042
kernel-seeds.org is a great reference when picking configuration options. Specifically:

http://kernel-seeds.org/working.html

Takes you through getting information about your system via (among other things


and this thread if you want to ask pappy himself any questions about kernel config's

Pappy's Kernel Seeds Part III

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-829476.html


If you have any more questions, feel free to ask away.

1 members found this post helpful.

Thanks a lot for that reply. Really contain some goodies and the timing is perfect. I was just done extracting portage

Anyway, regarding the -march=native, the rather cryptic command you supplied yielded no result at all, not even an error. What does that mean?

edit:
and here is the result of the lspci -n, via the site. That's just so cool

I don't know why you get no output. Maybe you don't have gcc emerged yet.

Here is the output on my machine:

That is weird about your output.


See my attachment for how mine was formatted.

Attached Thumbnails

 

apparently I don't have gcc in the minimal image I use, but how the heck am I supposed to compile anything without it? Suddenly it's not that odd that I haven't been able to emerge anything on my previous attempts.

Do I really need to use the livedvd? If so, I've go at problem, as I can't get it to work from an USB key.

Here's the CPU info, just in case it's of any use:

I have never used a LiveDVD to install Gentoo before.

I have installed from another Linux partition and a straight handbook installation using a Gentoo installation CD.

How exactly are you installing?

I'm using the minimal install cd from USB. Nothing too it really.

As far as I've gathered so far, there may be a problem with the $PATH, but my head really hurt right now. I thought if I could at least locate gcc, I could worry about that later, yet still get the information I need. Well, I need a break. Just in case it of any use, here's the path:
/usr/local/sbin:
/usr/local/bin:
/usr/sbin:
/usr/bin:
/sbin:
/bin:
/opt/bin:
/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.4.5

Thanks for the help so far. I'll return later.

edit:
Could it have something to do with the path being correct only when chrooted? That would sort of make sense.

Just make sure that you follow the handbook.

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handboo...book-amd64.xml

Which is exactly what I do and have done twice before, and still failed.

Just chrooted and that seemed to do the trick. Output from gcc:
Which is not entirely correct. How should I interpret this?

Will -march=native work then?

Once you are on gcc-4.5 then it would be march=atom, but this must be from gcc-4.4 because the march=atom was not added until gcc-4.5

I see, so I assume that -march=native will work then.

Thanks for that. Next up is the use vars, but that will have to wait a bit. I've got a splitting headache.

In the meantime, if you've got any suggestions, please do let me know.

can't let it all be now that things are working out so well

Easy question, which charmap to use with locale da_DK? ISO-8859-1, UTF-8, both or something else?

probably both and

ISO-8859-15 which I believe would be
I am in the US, so I use the standard