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Hi Anthony, |
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on Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 04:01:42PM +0100, you wrote: |
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> I have two theories about how to go about this.....no1, install esx 3i |
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> on a spare drive, make a 32bit Linux guest and point it's drives at the raw |
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> partitions I have now :) no2, alter make.conf to 64bit flags, and emerge -e |
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> world --buildpkgonly then reboot into a 64bit live cd, and emerge -e world |
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> --usepkgonly which should give me a working system....Obviously the kernel |
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> and network drivers would also need rebuilding at this point again.... |
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> Will no 2 work? |
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I'm not sure I understood #1 correctly but it sounds like neither will |
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work. Going 32->64bit (or vice versa) always requires a fresh install. |
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What I *think* you could do to reduce the hassle of updating all your |
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configs is to start off with a partition with your 32bit system on it |
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and use that for the regular Gentoo install procedure, i.e. slap the |
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tarballs on top and then do all the emerging. But it would certainly |
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leave some garbage around in /lib etc. so I wouldn't recommend it. If |
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you didn't actually change the hardware so you don't have to reconfigure |
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your kernel and stuff, a fresh install using your old world file |
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shouldn't take more than a day. |
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cheers, |
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Matthias |
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