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+++ Konstantinos Agouros [gentoo-user] [Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 05:39:20PM +0000]: |
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> Hi, |
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> the mainboard on my main workbox needs a replacement (currently still an |
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> athlon-xp based system). So I will go amd64 with that machine. Booting |
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> a 64bit kernel on all the 32bit binaries works fine. What gives me a bit |
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> of a headache is how to switch? |
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> Thought a: create a directory /64 install everything there and then switch |
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> lib, bin /usr |
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> Thought b: create tbz2 of all the packages and then in one run replace |
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> the 32 packages using emerge but i might run into library problems. |
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> Anybody has a good and efficient idea, how to do this? |
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I did this way back. I think there was some good instructions somewhere |
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but I can't seem to find them. |
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IIRC it involved doing something like an install. You boot from a CD, |
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install the stage tbz. Set your profile properly, and then do "emerge -ev |
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system; emerge -ev world". |
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-- |
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// Andrew MacKenzie | http://www.edespot.com |
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// GPG public key: http://www.edespot.com/~amackenz/public.key |
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// "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. |
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// Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, |
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// by definition, not smart enough to debug it." |
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// -- Brian W. Kernighan |
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