Re: [gentoo-user] Install a 64bit system from a 32bit minimal CD

2007-11-28 Thread Yoav Luft
Well, seems like the other PC's cd writer got mildly broken so it can only read cds, not burn any. So after some thought, I salvaged my old PC's cd writer and installed it (in quite an ugly way, as ide cables were to short) in the windows box, burnt the LiveCD and installed Linux on my new

[gentoo-user] Install a 64bit system from a 32bit minimal CD

2007-11-26 Thread Yoav Luft
Hi all, Got myself a new machine, AMD Athlon x2 4000 based, all up and running, but I have no functional CD writer! Can I use the previously burnt 2006 minimal x86 cd to install on my x86_64 system? Or can you think of any other way to install without a burning a new CD? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Install a 64bit system from a 32bit minimal CD

2007-11-26 Thread Aaron Clark
Yoav Luft wrote: Hi all, Got myself a new machine, AMD Athlon x2 4000 based, all up and running, but I have no functional CD writer! Can I use the previously burnt 2006 minimal x86 cd to install on my x86_64 system? Or can you think of any other way to install without a burning a new CD? It

Re: [gentoo-user] Install a 64bit system from a 32bit minimal CD

2007-11-26 Thread David Relson
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:53:42 -0500 Aaron Clark wrote: Yoav Luft wrote: Hi all, Got myself a new machine, AMD Athlon x2 4000 based, all up and running, but I have no functional CD writer! Can I use the previously burnt 2006 minimal x86 cd to install on my x86_64 system? Or can you think