Am 07.09.2010 18:05, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > 1. Back up /etc and anything else you want to keep > 2. Reinstall > 3. Set CHOST to something suitable > 4. emerge -e world > 5. Restore stuff from step #1 > > It's an interesting exercise to try and do the migration, people who like > puzzles enjoy it. If your goal is to have a 64 bit system using the route of > least pain, best to follow the path with lots of consensus around here - the > one above.
Yep, did that back then with my main workstation, and now I take that "nice exercise" to migrate my thinkpad. I don't remember in detail how I "merged" /etc ... I now start building that system on top of a 64bit-VM-template I maintained for such purposes. Any ideas/hints? S
