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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 is |
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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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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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