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 incompatible libraries/binaries, and with a >> 32bit kernel trying to run 64bit apps and crap.....but this should avoid >> all that, with minimal downtime..... >> > > Looks easy right? > > So, what tool chain on this 32 bit machine are you going to use to build the > 64 bit binaries you actually want to output? > > You know you are going to do heaps of setup actions, build a new tool chain > then essentially do emerge -e world. > > Much easier to just copy stuff off a 64-bit stage3 then do emerge -e world. > > Easier, probably, but I am bothered about downtime on this machine too, it doesn't do anything vital, but it is a mail server..From other responses though, it looks like it may be better to just get VMWare accepting that it is running on a 64bit CPU......
Thanks for all the rsponses!
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