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Hi, |
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Mike Williams wrote: |
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> I've just upgraded one of my boxes from a P4 to an X2, and now wish to move to |
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> a proper 64bit profile. I'm no newbie, having been using gentoo for some 4 |
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> years, nor am I especially new to the 64bit world. |
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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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Really, it's not that easy to switch. It's rather nearly impossible. It'll take |
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you far less to just re-install and take over your old /home than to try doing |
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wierd stuff. |
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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 amd64 |
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> livecd to compile a proper 64bit kernel, which will enable me to compile a |
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> 64bit toolchain. |
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You would need a cross-compiler, as you can't compile a 64bit toolchain with a |
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32bit toolchain just because you've got a 64bit kernel. |
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> Could not compile a 64bit kernel, or a multilib gcc, from the 32bit kernel. |
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> I was hoping to use the 2004.3 to 2005.0 upgrade script in the 2005.0 profile, |
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> but someone removed the 2004.3 profile :) Not that the process is especially |
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> difficult. |
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It wouldn't work anyway. |
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Kind Regards, |
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Simon Stelling |
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Gentoo/AMD64 Developer |
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