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

From Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.hardawe, comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: It's Alive! Xeon W-1270P Has Booted!
Date 2025-02-17 11:57 -0600
Organization Modern Human
Message-ID <vovta4$brq7$3@solani.org> (permalink)
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On 2/17/25 3:03 AM, Farley Flud wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:40:21 -0600, Physfitfreak wrote:
> 
>>
>> 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.
>>
> 
> Get a copy of the Gentoo LiveGUI USB:
> 
> https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/
> 
> Write the ISO file to a USB thumb drive:
> 
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Media#Writing_a_bootable_USB
> 
> Basically, the command is:
> 
> dd if=livegui.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4096 status=progress && sync
> 
> You just need to know what drive (/dev/sdX) is the USB.
> 
> After booting the LiveGUI, your Xeon will work.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


My Xeon works fine with Knoppix on a USB drive too. I want to use it 
with a full-featured linux os installed on the HD, not from a USB, if 
that's what you're telling me to do.

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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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