Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Vserver, Opteron Funtoo Stages Now Available

We now have Funtoo (unstable) stages available for the AMD Athlon 64 and Opteron processor. These stages differ from the generic “amd64” stages in that they have been optimized with -march=opteron, and are thus AMD-specific. They should run on AMD-based Opteron and Athlon64 systems. To download them, head over to http://www.funtoo.org and click on the “Opteron” link.

Also, I wanted to thank Benedikt Böhm for submitting patches to add Linux vserver support to Metro. I am now building Linux vserver templates for all Funtoo builds. You can find the vserver templates in the “vserver” subdirectory inside each stage directory. Likewise, you can find my OpenVZ templates in an “openvz” subdirectory inside the stage directory too. Thanks again, Benedikt, for the submission :)

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

I have the following processor:
AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3000+
What stage is suitable for me?

Daniel Robbins said...
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Daniel Robbins said...

I believe that your CPU is essentially an Athlon XP processor, so you should use the 32-bit athlon-xp build.

Regards,

Daniel

Sezaru said...

Hey Daniel can you answer a question? I have a AMD Athlon X2 Dual-Core QL-60 1.9ghz
I don't know wish cflag it's the right for my processor, his cpu_family is 17 and model 3, i tried found it on safe cflags gentoo wiki page but there is no processor like mine, so, do you know wish is the right cflag? opteron or athlon64?
Thanks a lot!

Daniel Robbins said...

I would go with the Opteron build for the QL-60.

Anonymous said...

yeah vserver, thank you!

Anonymous said...

Warra here.
I see the quick guide needs a bit of tuning as metro and scripts ends up in /root/git/metro/scripts/ for me somehow and

http://wiki.github.com/funtoo/metro/quickstartguide

# wget http://www.funtoo.org/linux/~funto/x86/~funtoo-~x86-2009.04.01/stage3-x86-2009.04.01.tar.bz2
the -~x86 needs to be -x86 as ~funtoo is already ~

All else works and script links needs to be adjusted accordingly.

Konstantin said...

I use the hardened Gentoo with grsecurity-vserver sources with the unstable Funtoo portage tree. I think it's much more secure. It's not difficult to build either but I haven't tried Metro yet.

Anonymous said...

I get the feeling you have an extensive /etc/portage/package.keywords file that doesn't deliver with the prebuilt funtoo stable. I get this impression because I just started a new install for the first time, and emerge world wants to downgrade a lot of stuff. It seems not inapropriate to make a package.keywords file and put these files in it, yes? Anyway that's what I am doing but it seems like there must be something obvious I am missing.

Anonymous said...

It sounds like you took a funtoo (not funtoo-stable) stage and then removed the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS line from /etc/make.conf

I've installed using funtoo-stable stages several times without a problem, unless there is something wonky with those particular stages.

Anonymous said...

nope. Used stable funtoo and ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86".

Daniel Robbins said...

Can you let me know the specific funtoo stable tarball you used, and the specific portage snapshot you used? Then I can try to replicate here.

Regards,

Daniel

Anonymous said...

I myself have this processor:

Intel Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2250 @ 1.73GHz stepping 08

Which build should I use, please ? The core2 one won't work for me, because it has: CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" and my proc. is on 32 bits.