+++ Konstantinos Agouros [gentoo-user] [Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 05:39:20PM +0000]: > 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? I did this way back. I think there was some good instructions somewhere but I can't seem to find them.
IIRC it involved doing something like an install. You boot from a CD, install the stage tbz. Set your profile properly, and then do "emerge -ev system; emerge -ev world". -- // Andrew MacKenzie | http://www.edespot.com // GPG public key: http://www.edespot.com/~amackenz/public.key // "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. // Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, // by definition, not smart enough to debug it." // -- Brian W. Kernighan
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