Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Anthony Metcalf <nevyn@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo x86 to AMD64
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:16:06
Message-Id: 48B26A41.2080003@anferny.me.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo x86 to AMD64 by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
2 > why downtime? just create a directory, install the 64bit gentoo in that
3 > directory. Tar everything up, boot from livecd, untar the tar into the old
4 > system. Done. Downtime depends on the speed of your harddisks. Something
5 > between 5 and 30minutes. Top.
6 >
7 So effectivly the same as the original post, just with all the setup
8 bits in th process rather than keeping the config in place.....Hmmm...
9 > Btw, why mailserver?
10 >
11 >
12
13 Why not? :) It's also a webserver, svn server, and a few other things.....