From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PQWop-0008Ha-Aj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 03:05:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 90F89E08B1 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 03:05:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.virtyou.com (mx.virtyou.com [94.23.166.77]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE757E0778 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 02:28:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from weird.localnet (p5794EEE8.dip.t-dialin.net [87.148.238.232]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx.virtyou.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C9C794A82A7 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 03:28:07 +0100 (CET) From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] About to install on a 64 bit system. Advice wanted. Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 03:27:59 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.36-ck-r3; KDE/4.5.4; x86_64; ; ) References: <4CFFF5DE.20303@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4CFFF5DE.20303@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201012090328.00447.wonko@wonkology.org> X-Archives-Salt: 5696571f-3835-46df-b7f3-2ff25075a987 X-Archives-Hash: fa0c3395620d7f6c029722105a85ef60 Dale writes: > What are some things that I should watch for and enable that isn't so > obvious for someone new to 64 bit? If you are running databases like mysql, you need to export the databases and import them later. This is because they are in binary format, and the datatypes are different in x86 and amd64 world. Wonko