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Hi 64-ers, I am made a step-by-step plan of how to install amd64 over ia32 following the excellent advice of Clive, David, Thomas and Bob. I have a couple of residual queries but once answered maybe this could be a sort of mini-howto for sub-dummies like me ;-). I will actual try and do this once I have received confirmation that this plan has a chance of working. Thanks again. ========================================================= ~ 1.Downloaded latest Knoppix iso ~ 2.Boot with Knoppix and use qtparted to create a new partition (a)for concreteness call it hda2 ~ 3.Create 60GB partition ~ 4.Bootup sarge i386 ~ 5.run aptitude install kernel-image-2.6-amd64-k8 (a)this gets me the files: kernel-image-2.6-amd64-k8 kernel-image-2.6.8-10-amd64-k8 ~ 6.Reboot and boot the new kernel, then run debootstrap --arch amd64 sarge /pure64/ http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pure64 (a)QUERY: Will the new kernel appear in Grub? (that's what I use) or do I have to edit the grub menu file before this step? (b)QUERY: Ok, I have booted the new kernel. Will I be able to run ia32 binaries like debootstrap? Or do I have to install it again once the new kernel is running? In general if I'm doing all this from the new kernel what if any binaries can I run? ~ 7.Copy some files over (like /etc/{fstab,hostname,hosts,...}, whichever you need. (a)Query: Copy them to where? I still can't visualise what the new file system will look like. Will there be a /pure64/etc/ alongside of the /etc/ ? And so on for the entire file system? If so, then it's easy. ~ 8.Do aptitude install ia32-libs (a)QUERY: the HOWTO claims that these will run ?most? ia32 programs. Is that your experience? ~ 9.bind mount /home, /tmp, /proc ============================================================== Hope this doesn't sound too crazy. Jonathan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux)
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