Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-25 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Florian Philipp wrote: Just a thought: Is it possible to compile a 64bit kernel and use him on the current system? That way you could set up your new native 64bit system in a chroot before overwriting the old one and thus minimize downtime to less than 15 minutes.

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-25 Thread Florian Philipp
Daniel Barkalow schrieb: On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Florian Philipp wrote: Just a thought: Is it possible to compile a 64bit kernel and use him on the current system? That way you could set up your new native 64bit system in a chroot before overwriting the old one and thus minimize downtime to

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:38:36 -0400, David Relson wrote: I recall installing Gentoo as being a P.I.T.A, hence take no pleasure in the idea of re-installing. I was hoping for something relatively simple, like changing CHOST and emerging world unpacking amd64 stage3 tarball on top of

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-24 Thread Florian Philipp
Neil Bothwick schrieb: On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:38:36 -0400, David Relson wrote: I recall installing Gentoo as being a P.I.T.A, hence take no pleasure in the idea of re-installing. I was hoping for something relatively simple, like changing CHOST and emerging world unpacking amd64

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-24 Thread David Relson
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:17:53 +0200 Florian Philipp wrote: Neil Bothwick schrieb: ...[snip]... Unpacking a stage 3 tarball on top of a working system is a good way of converting it to a non-working system. It will also overwrite many of your settings in /etc. If you are going to use a

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-24 Thread Doug Whitesell
On Sep 24, 2007, at 5:03 PM, David Relson wrote: Just a thought: Is it possible to compile a 64bit kernel and use him on the current system? That way you could set up your new native 64bit system in a chroot before overwriting the old one and thus minimize downtime to less than 15 minutes.

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 23. September 2007, David Relson wrote: Now that my old AthlonXP mobo has been replaced by an AMD 64 X2 mobo, it's time for upgrading CHOST :- According to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml after a couple of changes to /etc/make.conf, i.e. from: USE=x86 ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-23 Thread Doug Whitesell
On Sep 23, 2007, at 5:47 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sonntag, 23. September 2007, David Relson wrote: Now that my old AthlonXP mobo has been replaced by an AMD 64 X2 mobo, it's time for upgrading CHOST :- According to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml after a couple of

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-23 Thread Doug Whitesell
On Sep 22, 2007, at 5:13 PM, David Relson wrote: Now that my old AthlonXP mobo has been replaced by an AMD 64 X2 mobo, it's time for upgrading CHOST :- According to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml after a couple of changes to /etc/make.conf, i.e. from: USE=x86 ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-23 Thread Marc Redmann
boot from cd Don't want to start a flame war here, but why should he use reiserfs ??? I think he can use whatever filesystem he wishes to ... mkfs.reiserfs start stage3 installation. brgds, Marc -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 23. September 2007, Marc Redmann wrote: boot from cd Don't want to start a flame war here, but why should he use reiserfs ??? it was an example. And I am free to choose any fs I want for that. Exept jfs. Besides reiserfs is a good fs, so no harm done. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-23 Thread Mark Shields
On 9/22/07, David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that my old AthlonXP mobo has been replaced by an AMD 64 X2 mobo, it's time for upgrading CHOST :- According to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml after a couple of changes to /etc/make.conf, i.e. from: USE=x86 ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-23 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:16:03 -0400 Mark Shields wrote: ...[snip]... Besides what everyone else has already suggested, I would suggest backing up everything beforehand, or you can continue using your 32-bit environment with your shiny new 64-bit processor, but you will not be able to use any

[gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-22 Thread David Relson
Now that my old AthlonXP mobo has been replaced by an AMD 64 X2 mobo, it's time for upgrading CHOST :- According to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml after a couple of changes to /etc/make.conf, i.e. from: USE=x86 ... CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-O2

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-22 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Sunday 23 September 2007 02:13:46 David Relson wrote: Now that my old AthlonXP mobo has been replaced by an AMD 64 X2 mobo, it's time for upgrading CHOST :- According to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml after a couple of changes to /etc/make.conf, i.e. from:

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-22 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 03:43 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: Changing CHOST is valid when you have e.g. an i386 CHOST and want to change it to i686. It is not an option for going from 32 bit to 64 bit. You need to reinstall. Below is what I did a few years ago. YMMV. There may be a

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-22 Thread Albert Hopkins
Oops, forgot to paste the link: http://starship.python.net/crew/marduk/blog/entry/1112117933.9,14473 -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] changing CHOST

2006-09-13 Thread Nagatoro
Timothy A. Holmes wrote: Hi folks: In the course of learning gentoo, I managed to create several systems using the wrong stage 3 tarballs (or something) They all have a CHOST setting of i386 Should I change this? What benefits will it bring me, and Since the new glibc - yes How do

Re: [gentoo-user] changing CHOST

2006-09-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/12/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/12/06, darren kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: system. The cpu instructions are forward (but not backward) compatible. Thus, I did not think it necessary for a wholesale rebuild of the entire system on the spot. Indeed it seems this is not

RE: [gentoo-user] changing CHOST

2006-09-13 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
On 9/12/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/12/06, darren kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: system. The cpu instructions are forward (but not backward) compatible. Thus, I did not think it necessary for a wholesale rebuild of the entire system on the spot. Indeed it seems

Re: [gentoo-user] changing CHOST

2006-09-13 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 9/13/06, Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/12/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/12/06, darren kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: system. The cpu instructions are forward (but not backward) compatible. Thus, I did not think it necessary for a wholesale rebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] changing CHOST

2006-09-12 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Richard Fish: BTW, Darren's answer on this thread seems incorrect to me. Changing CHOST is a pretty significant thing to tweak, certainly as significant as changing gcc versions, and you really should re-merge *everything* to make sure your something doesn't wind up broken. Hi

RE: [gentoo-user] changing CHOST

2006-09-10 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
-Original Message- On 9/9/06, Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I understand it, I change the chost, and then emerge -e system emerge -e world Hmm, same answer I gave you yesterday: change CHOST in make.conf /usr/portage/scripts/bootstrap.sh emerge -e system

Re: [gentoo-user] changing CHOST

2006-09-10 Thread Jean-Marc Beaune
Hi, I had to change CHOST during gcc upgrade. I did bootstrap.sh I did emerge -e system emerge -e world didn't work. I struggled more than one week to make it work, now I'm reinstalling from scratch. My advise: Backup all important data and excpect the fact that you could lost your system. On

Re: [gentoo-user] changing CHOST

2006-09-10 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: Jean-Marc Beaune [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] changing CHOST Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 18:39:07 +0200 Hi, I had to change CHOST also and I can only speak of my experience -- which may be based on the wrong way to do such things, but... I did: Change CHOST Update

RE: [gentoo-user] changing CHOST

2006-09-10 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Richard Fish Sent: Sun 9/10/2006 2:30 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] changing CHOST On 9/10/06, Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard: I got this one - thanks, the problem

[gentoo-user] changing CHOST

2006-09-09 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
Hi folks: In the course of learning gentoo, I managed to create several systems using the wrong stage 3 tarballs (or something) They all have a CHOST setting of i386 Should I change this? What benefits will it bring me, and How do I do it? As I understand it, I change the chost, and then

Re: [gentoo-user] changing CHOST

2006-09-09 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 09 September 2006 18:54, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: Hi folks: [SNIP] Replying to another thread and changed the subject like this is referred to as hijacking a thread. Please don't do that. Instead post a new email to this list with the new subject. New mail rather than reply...

Re: [gentoo-user] changing CHOST

2006-09-09 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Timothy A. Holmes: Hi folks: In the course of learning gentoo, I managed to create several systems using the wrong stage 3 tarballs (or something) They all have a CHOST setting of i386 Should I change this? What benefits will it bring me, and Depends on your type of processor.

Re: [gentoo-user] changing CHOST

2006-09-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/9/06, Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I understand it, I change the chost, and then emerge -e system emerge -e world Hmm, same answer I gave you yesterday: change CHOST in make.conf /usr/portage/scripts/bootstrap.sh emerge -e system emerge -e world Me thinks the mail list

Re: [gentoo-user] changing CHOST

2006-09-09 Thread John J. Foster
On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 05:34:55PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: Me thinks the mail list bug has struck again. Let me know if you don't get this one. ;- Just an FYI - I didn't get your other mail. festus -- In all the millions of years dinosaurs roamed this planet, did any of them feel the