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On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>wrote: |
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> On Thursday 24 December 2009 16:33:26 Carlos Moyano Cubillos wrote: |
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> > Dear friends, |
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> > I have a gentoo system running 32bit .. and I have a 30GB partition |
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> > available on which I would like to install a 64bit Gentoo to test for |
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> > 64bit extensions processor supports . |
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> > someone could help me and tell me how to proceed with this |
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> > installation from my running system without having to reboot with a |
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> > livecd. |
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> You have to reboot with a LiveCD. |
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> Your running 32 bit kernel does not support 64 bit instructions and there |
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> no magic voodoo to make it possible. The CPU might understand 64 bit |
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> instructions but the running kernel that drives it definitely does not. |
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> -- |
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> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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I don't know for sure, but I would guess that if you don't try to use any |
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file from the new 64 bit partition, that would be fine. |
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AFAIK you can install a 64 bit system using the 32 bit livecd. |
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Just a guess, though |
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Francisco |
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"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you |
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and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have one |
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idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." - |
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