[CLUE-Cert] Athlon64 box

[dperkins at techangle.com]

> On 07-25 21:15, Dennis J Perkins wrote:
>> I finally got started on trying to build LFS on the new box.  Much of
>> the hardware seems to be working ok, but I haven't tried burning CDs or
>> DCSs yet, and I don't know if the CompactFlash reader in the floppy
>> drive works.   Built -in Ethernet and sound are n't tested and the video
>> card has not been tested with X.
>>
>> It looks like I need to build a cross-compiler in order to compile
>> 64-bit code for this system.  I expected something out of the ordinary
>> when I decided to use the Athlon-64.
>>
>> There are two temperature sensors in the box.  I left them coiled up for
>> now, and they show an internal temperature of 85.4 degrees.  I will
>> probably monitor the CPU temperature later to see how hot it gets.
>>
>> One interesting thing about a SATA drive.  It shows up as hde instead of
>> hda, apparently because the motherboard also has two regular ATA
>> connections.
>
> Sounds interesting. Any chance you are bringing it tomorrow? We still are
> meeting tomorrow, right?
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Sean LeBlanc:seanleblanc at comcast.net
> In a bottle, the neck is always at the top.


I'm planning on bringing it for everyone to look at.  I've been booting
from an LFS CD, so there is not much on it yet.