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Re: It's Alive! Xeon W-1270P Has Booted!

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On 2/16/25 12:36 PM, Farley Flud wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Feb 2025 14:18:51 -0600, Physfitfreak wrote:
> 
>>
>> When I acquire the knowledge to carefully install gentoo on my Xeon
>> machine, I'll see whether linux can be used with it or not.
>>
> 
> It'll work.
> 
> However, installing Gentoo is a huge PITA, being almost the same
> as installing LFS.
> 
> I do not strictly use Gentoo, but only their automated build
> system known as Portage.
> 
> My strategy has always been to clone my existing installations
> onto a new machine.  Ideally, this would involve cross compiling
> which is another PITA.  But if the new CPU ranks above the old
> CPU then a straightforward copy will allow the new machine to
> boot with the old software packages.
> 
> In my current case, however, I assumed that the Xeon W-2223
> would be identical, except for AVX-512, with the Xeon W-1270P.
> However, it is not and the new machine would not boot using
> software compiled on the Xeon W-2223.
> 
> I had to fall back to the Core i7 machine to build the software
> and in this way the new Xeon W-1270P now boots.  The Core i7 is
> "below" the Xeon W-1270P.
> 
> The next step is to use Gentoo Portage to rebuild everything
> (i.e. the "world") according to the Xeon W-1270P specs.
> 
> My approach is totally unconventional but it works magnificently.
> I eschew both systemd and SysV for booting and use my own boot
> scripts (derived from LFS).  Gentoo Portage is used only for
> automated building.  Otherwise my systems are not Gentoo.
> 
> I should post my unique GNU/Linux "distro" to GitLab, but
> most users are lackeys and would never take notice.
> 
> Yes, my systems are different from any other GNU/Linux
> "distro."  I should perhaps create "Farley's Fantastic Linux"
> but, as I already indicated, the lackeys would never notice.
> 
> 
> 
> 


Go for it. Right now I don't even know what you're talking about. But if 
I take a step toward finding whether my Xeon computer works with linux 
then I will have to take that opportunity to delve inside everything 
about workings of linux. Otherwise it won't be worth the effort, I feel.

I wanted to do this about 2 years ago but got distracted by political 
events, which are always injected into me each time I video-talk live 
with folks in Iran.

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Re: It's Alive! Xeon W-1270P Has Booted! Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-02-15 14:18 -0600
  Re: It's Alive! Xeon W-1270P Has Booted! -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-02-16 12:22 -0500
    Re: It's Alive! Xeon W-1270P Has Booted! Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-02-16 15:22 -0600
  Re: It's Alive! Xeon W-1270P Has Booted! Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-02-16 18:36 +0000
    Re: It's Alive! Xeon W-1270P Has Booted! Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-02-16 15:40 -0600
      Re: It's Alive! Xeon W-1270P Has Booted! Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-02-17 09:03 +0000
        Re: It's Alive! Xeon W-1270P Has Booted! Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-02-17 11:57 -0600
          Re: It's Alive! Xeon W-1270P Has Booted! Farley Flud <fsquared@fsquared.linux> - 2025-02-17 18:18 +0000
            Re: It's Alive! Xeon W-1270P Has Booted! Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-02-17 13:33 -0500
            Re: It's Alive! Xeon W-1270P Has Booted! Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-02-17 13:17 -0600
            Re: It's Alive! Xeon W-1270P Has Booted! Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-02-17 13:18 -0600
            Re: It's Alive! Xeon W-1270P Has Booted! Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-02-17 13:20 -0600

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