likewhoa Posted March 7, 2007 Posted March 7, 2007 I dual-boot, you can run prime in linux and other hardware stress testing applications, here are a few i use. bonnie++ - Hard drive bottleneck testing benchmark suite. http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++ acovea - Analysis of Compiler Options via Evolutionary Algorithm - http://www.coyotegulch.com/products/acovea cpuburn - http://pages.sbcglobal.net/redelm gimps - The Linux version of Prime95 for Windows. forkbomb - application to fork processes on the system and stress the hell out of it. Superpi - Linux binary of Superpi - ftp://pi.super-computing.org/Linux/super_pi.tar.gz Hope this helps. Orthos,3dmark stuff won't work in linux. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenix-Dark Posted March 18, 2007 Posted March 18, 2007 Might wanna add a few things regarding grub. GRUB cannot boot DOS or Windows directly, so you must chain-load them (see Chain-loading). However, their boot loaders have some critical deficiencies, so it may not work to just chain-load them. To overcome the problems, GRUB provides you with two helper functions. If you have installed DOS (or Windows) on a non-first hard disk, you have to use the disk swapping technique, because that OS cannot boot from any disks but the first one. The workaround used in GRUB is the command map (see map), like this: grub> map (hd0) (hd1) grub> map (hd1) (hd0) This performs a virtual swap between your first and second hard drive. Caution: This is effective only if DOS (or Windows) uses BIOS to access the swapped disks. If that OS uses a special driver for the disks, this probably won't work. Another problem arises if you installed more than one set of DOS/Windows onto one disk, because they could be confused if there are more than one primary partitions for DOS/Windows. Certainly you should avoid doing this, but there is a solution if you do want to do so. Use the partition hiding/unhiding technique. If GRUB hides a DOS (or Windows) partition (see hide), DOS (or Windows) will ignore the partition. If GRUB unhides a DOS (or Windows) partition (see unhide), DOS (or Windows) will detect the partition. Thus, if you have installed DOS (or Windows) on the first and the second partition of the first hard disk, and you want to boot the copy on the first partition, do the following: grub> unhide (hd0,0) grub> hide (hd0,1) grub> rootnoverify (hd0,0) grub> chainloader +1 grub> makeactive grub> boot here's an example. # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg. # root (hd0,0) # kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hdc1 # initrd /boot/initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/hdc default=1 timeout=8 splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667) root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img title Microsoft Windows XP Pro 32 bit root (hd1,0) map (hd1) (hd0) map (hd0) (hd1) unhide (hd0,0) hide (hd0,1) makeactive chainloader +1 title Microsoft Windows XP Pro 64 bit root (hd1,1) map (hd1) (hd0) map (hd0) (hd1) unhide (hd0,1) hide (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 #Fenix-Dark r0x0rz =P Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
likewhoa Posted March 19, 2007 Posted March 19, 2007 I will add to the FAQ section. thx Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BFG Posted March 24, 2007 Posted March 24, 2007 If you want a little more explanation than you should read the official installation guide. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
likewhoa Posted March 25, 2007 Posted March 25, 2007 If you want a little more explanation than you should read the official installation guide. Actually this guide has all the detailed information you need for the install and a little more than the official guide provides, reason being is because it focuses on doing an install using the stage1 tarball which it's not supported by Gentoo, so details on that and more is included in the guide. Also I have provided links to Official Gentoo Guides on the bottom of the thread for others to seek. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
THEnumber337 Posted March 30, 2007 Posted March 30, 2007 Hey likewhoa, I was looking around at different distros and I came across one named Sabayon and from what I read it seemed to be similar to Gentoo. Is this true? If it is then in what ways does it differ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
likewhoa Posted March 30, 2007 Posted March 30, 2007 Saboyon is a fork of Gentoo which uses it's own overlay and most are development packages. Saboyon linux is good but you can get the same effects yourself by downloading the various available overlays provided by Gentoo and layman. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
THEnumber337 Posted April 25, 2007 Posted April 25, 2007 Hey likewhoa, In the video you provided using Beryl and Gentoo for a bit you take the launch icons from your panel and spin them around your whole desktop. Is this something from Gentoo or is it something from Beryl? I can't find it in the Beryl Settings Manager. I would rather have a small panel with just my launch icons on the top like you had with perhaps another panel on the bottom. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
likewhoa Posted April 26, 2007 Posted April 26, 2007 it's called kiba-dock Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
THEnumber337 Posted May 16, 2007 Posted May 16, 2007 I am downloading the ISO image right now and will soon be giving this all a try following your guide. However, I noticed that the one I'm downloading is titled 2006.1 while on Gentoo's site the most recent one for download is 2007.0. Should I go ahead and download the newer one or just go with the one you have linked in your guide? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
likewhoa Posted May 20, 2007 Posted May 20, 2007 I am downloading the ISO image right now and will soon be giving this all a try following your guide. However, I noticed that the one I'm downloading is titled 2006.1 while on Gentoo's site the most recent one for download is 2007.0. Should I go ahead and download the newer one or just go with the one you have linked in your guide? use the one in the guide until i test it myself so that you're not compiling anything you don't need twice. I plan on updating the guide to reflect the current profile 2007.0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
likewhoa Posted June 7, 2007 Posted June 7, 2007 GUIDE UPDATED to reflect the 2007.0 profile. I will also be add optional Linux Software RAID, Logical Volume Manager & EVMS to the guide soon. P.S the 2007.0 profile is flawless.. .:03:25:. < likewhoa> Timing cached reads: 2904 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1452.94 MB/sec.:03:25:. < likewhoa> Timing buffered disk reads: 432 MB in 3.01 seconds = 143.66 MB/sec .:03:26:. < likewhoa> my new raid6 array 4x500GB .:03:27:. <+perry753> omgwtf .:03:28:. < likewhoa> even with dm-crypt gcc builds in 22mins .:03:28:. < likewhoa> probably take a little less without that layer enc Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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