Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
why downtime? just create a directory, install the 64bit gentoo in that
directory. Tar everything up, boot from livecd, untar the tar into the old
system. Done. Downtime depends on the speed of your harddisks. Something
between 5 and 30minutes. Top.
So
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Friday 22 August 2008 17:48:32 Anthony Metcalf wrote:
What about re-building every single package, and re-installing it isn't a
complete -reinstall?
I can understand that this wouldn't work without the re-boot to live cd
step, as you would end up with
On Sonntag, 24. August 2008, Anthony Metcalf wrote:
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Friday 22 August 2008 17:48:32 Anthony Metcalf wrote:
What about re-building every single package, and re-installing it isn't
a complete -reinstall?
I can understand that this wouldn't work without the re-boot
Hi,
I have a system that started out running on an AMD K6II 450MHz
processorAbout 3 months ago, it was upgraded to a Phenom. The
process was pretty painless, recompile kernel, install new hardware,
reboot, rebuild network drivers etc alter C(XX)FLAGS and emerge -e world
Now I
On Freitag, 22. August 2008, Anthony Metcalf wrote:
Hi,
I have a system that started out running on an AMD K6II 450MHz
processorAbout 3 months ago, it was upgraded to a Phenom. The
process was pretty painless, recompile kernel, install new hardware,
reboot, rebuild network drivers
Hi Anthony,
on Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 04:01:42PM +0100, you wrote:
I have two theories about how to go about this.no1, install esx 3i
on a spare drive, make a 32bit Linux guest and point it's drives at the raw
partitions I have now :) no2, alter make.conf to 64bit flags, and emerge -e
On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 17:27 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
Easiest way: complete reinstall.
Probably. You also get the feeling of knowing no old cruft is looming
out there to eventually give you a migraine.
Having said that I did a migration from x86 to amd64 a few years back
and blogged
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
no.
Why?
Easiest way: complete reinstall.
What about re-building every single package, and re-installing it isn't
a complete -reinstall?
I can understand that this wouldn't work without the re-boot to live cd
step, as you would end up with incompatible
2008/8/22 Anthony Metcalf [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I have a system that started out running on an AMD K6II 450MHz
processorAbout 3 months ago, it was upgraded to a Phenom. The process
was pretty painless, recompile kernel, install new hardware, reboot, rebuild
network drivers etc alter
Albert Hopkins wrote:
On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 17:27 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
Easiest way: complete reinstall.
Probably. You also get the feeling of knowing no old cruft is looming
out there to eventually give you a migraine.
Having said that I did a migration from x86 to
Matthias Bethke wrote:
I'm not sure I understood #1 correctly but it sounds like neither will
work. Going 32-64bit (or vice versa) always requires a fresh install.
What I *think* you could do to reduce the hassle of updating all your
configs is to start off with a partition with your 32bit
On Freitag, 22. August 2008, Anthony Metcalf wrote:
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
no.
Why?
Easiest way: complete reinstall.
What about re-building every single package, and re-installing it isn't
a complete -reinstall?
I can understand that this wouldn't work without the re-boot to live
Quoting Anthony Metcalf [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Now I have a system that flies, but I want to be able to use 64Bit
VMware guests...so, I am quite sure I need to have a 64bit system for
VMWare server to allow this...
VMware will accept _and_ run x86_64 guest in x86 hosts.
Regards,
Norberto
On Friday 22 August 2008 17:48:32 Anthony Metcalf wrote:
What about re-building every single package, and re-installing it isn't a
complete -reinstall?
I can understand that this wouldn't work without the re-boot to live cd
step, as you would end up with incompatible libraries/binaries, and
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