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On Friday 10 March 2006 13:59, Simon Stelling wrote: |
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> > I'm not willing to re-install, that's just lazy :) |
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> And we're not willing to support you :P |
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Now that sounds like a challenge! |
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> Really, it's not that easy to switch. It's rather nearly impossible. It'll |
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> take you far less to just re-install and take over your old /home than to |
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> try doing wierd stuff. |
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Oh, I'm fairly sure it would. |
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I'm still not going to reinstall :) Doing weird stuff is fun! |
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> > At the moment it's happily running a 32bit kernel, with 32bit userland. |
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> > From my experimentation last night, I suspect I will need to boot an |
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> > amd64 livecd to compile a proper 64bit kernel, which will enable me to |
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> > compile a 64bit toolchain. |
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> You would need a cross-compiler, as you can't compile a 64bit toolchain |
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> with a 32bit toolchain just because you've got a 64bit kernel. |
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Ahh, so I'll need to "get" a 64bit toolchain. That can be done. I could cheat |
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and make them on the opteron at work, or be a little more inventive and untar |
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a stage tarball to quickpkg some binary packages from inside that. |
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Thanks! |
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Mike Williams |
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