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Re: A New Machine Begins -- It's Alive!

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On 12/27/2024 11:05 AM, Farley Flud wrote:
> My power supply was delivered today.  The vid card will
> be at least 2 weeks until shipment.
> 
> But I couldn't fucking wait.  I swapped a vid card from
> another machine then switched on the power.
> 
> It's alive!
> 
> After some BIOS tweaking I booted with the Gentoo Live USB.
> Right now I'm in that stupid KDE desktop.  What junk!
> 
> I need to use Gentoo to get the CPU parameters, especially
> the cache sizes, so that I can cross compile a complete
> system from scratch.
> 
> There will be no generic distro on this mighty machine!
> 
> 


This isn't yet a complete work. When you are _done_ with the machine the 
way you want and begin using it for the first time for purposes other 
than messing with the machine itself, that's when your Roman Empire 
shows itself after about one or two minutes of use :)

Pass that point unharmed, and I can zero in better with what the issue 
with my xeon computer is.

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A New Machine Begins -- It's Alive! Farley Flud <fflud@gnu.rocks> - 2024-12-27 17:05 +0000
  Re: A New Machine Begins -- It's Alive! TomB <tommy.bongaerts@gmail.com> - 2024-12-27 17:49 +0000
  Re: A New Machine Begins -- It's Alive! TomB <tommy.bongaerts@gmail.com> - 2024-12-27 17:51 +0000
    Re: A New Machine Begins -- It's Alive! Farley Flud <fflud@gnu.rocks> - 2024-12-27 18:02 +0000
  Re: A New Machine Begins -- It's Alive! Physfitfreak <Physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-12-27 14:20 -0600

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