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On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:16:03 -0400 |
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Mark Shields wrote: |
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> Besides what everyone else has already suggested, I would suggest |
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> backing up everything beforehand, or you can continue using your |
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> 32-bit environment with your shiny new 64-bit processor, but you will |
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> not be able to use any 64-bit binaries. |
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> - Mark Shields |
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Hi Mark, |
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Backups happen regularly, so that's not an issue. |
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I recall installing Gentoo as being a P.I.T.A, hence take no pleasure |
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in the idea of re-installing. I was hoping for something relatively |
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simple, like |
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changing CHOST and emerging world |
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unpacking amd64 stage3 tarball on top of root |
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or something else |
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Hopefully a year of running Gentoo and emerging regularly and tweaking |
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config files will make the install less painful. |
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Regards, |
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David |
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P.S. I did experiment with unpacking the stage3 tarball into a chroot |
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environment and found that 64-bit ELF executables aren't recognized. |
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Sigh :-< |
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