On Donnerstag, 4. September 2008, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: > Hi, > > the mainboard on my main workbox needs a replacement (currently still an > athlon-xp based system). So I will go amd64 with that machine. Booting > a 64bit kernel on all the 32bit binaries works fine. What gives me a bit > of a headache is how to switch? > > Thought a: create a directory /64 install everything there and then switch > lib, bin /usr > > Thought b: create tbz2 of all the packages and then in one run replace > the 32 packages using emerge but i might run into library problems. > > Anybody has a good and efficient idea, how to do this? > > Regards, > > Konstantin
a sounds good. b not. b is so much work that it would be faster to do a clean new install. In fact, I recommend a clean new install - removes a lot of cruft. You can backup /etc - that saves you from some setup trouble.
