What PackageCD should I use

[yzonesoft]

I have a celeron 900Mhz processor, I would like to try gentoo with stage 3. There are package CD for x86 ,i686 and pentium 3. What package CD should I use. I am new to gentoo and this is my first installation.

[sarumont]

i686 would be your best bet as you don't have a PIII. The celeron is a 686 model CPU, so that would be the closest match.

[kkubasik]

actualy, ive always wondered what the processor archetectues are, does anyone know of a list ,whenever i try to google it, i jsut get teh thousands of mirrors for various ditro dl's

[yzonesoft]

I did a little google search and...

http://www.msi.com.tw/program/produc...?UID=66&kind=4

My celeron is 900Mhz and fsb(system bus) 100Mhz. So i decided it as celeron coppermine.

http://www.freehackers.org/gentoo/gc...flag_gcc3.html

The above page shows that celeron coppermine = pentium 3

So can I use pentium3 packageCD; or any package CD will work, but pentium 3 will be more optimized for me. just my guess;

[kkubasik]

yeah, or you can start w/ a generic x86 and then build it up from there, tahts the great thing about linux/gentoo there are many levels and you can do w/e you want!

[yzonesoft]

After learning about i386,i486,i586,i686, pentium, pentium pro, celeron 1, celeron 2, pentium 2,3,4... it seems that i686 is the closest match for celeron as sarumont mentioned

[mtn]

Is this the kind of table: http://www.informit.com/articles/art...30978&seqNum=4

[jesuswaffle]

I recommend starting with the vanilla x86 livecd, and, after installing, running:

emerge -av world

That will recompile everything for your processor, in addition to giving you the latest versions of everything.

(Actually, personally, I recommend not using the livecd at all, or at least not using the automated installer; it's given me no end of trouble! YMMV, of course.)