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On Freitag, 22. August 2008, Anthony Metcalf wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I have a system that started out running on an AMD K6II 450MHz |
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> processor....About 3 months ago, it was upgraded to a Phenom. The |
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> process was pretty painless, recompile kernel, install new hardware, |
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> reboot, rebuild network drivers etc alter C(XX)FLAGS and emerge -e |
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> world.... |
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> Now I have a system that flies, but I want to be able to use 64Bit |
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> VMware guests...so, I am quite sure I need to have a 64bit system for |
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> VMWare server to allow this... |
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> I have two theories about how to go about this.....no1, install esx |
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> 3i on a spare drive, make a 32bit Linux guest and point it's drives at |
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> the raw partitions I have now :) no2, alter make.conf to 64bit flags, |
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> and emerge -e world --buildpkgonly then reboot into a 64bit live cd, and |
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> emerge -e world --usepkgonly which should give me a working |
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> system....Obviously the kernel and network drivers would also need |
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> rebuilding at this point again.... |
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> |
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> Will no 2 work? |
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no. |
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Easiest way: complete reinstall. |
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