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 1PQZhE-0005bn-Gn for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 06:09:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 19C64E08E2 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 06:09:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gy0-f181.google.com (mail-gy0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACC66E0869 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 05:21:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyh3 with SMTP id 3so1613856gyh.40 for ; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 21:21:56 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=2WVgHPpeDVftwXo52oeHRMhCa3MBBQcKUW9mbl7uBbo=; b=pLHR1X612PnOwmGWc2uju3nZPFjDU3DGv+2ZbYiGunOLGf5OmqqJyW6sexEBa5h7Tp s6NnS7uUwN42X5f8e0QEiXP7BsCpEdaNUhmlf+sQ3AMSNpmPpFI9KnzrArnCdX6OSerB 7vcilgCSL9dfWbkcywW32cnkQPJjO1/c2YknI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=P3hyyc4zwAgWiryNQv5ORjexGnWuh2c6TNXS1dYJb8zBJJZMVc2exq/9eufZtX+C9u yDylx7Q4sPF67ygx4oBGMTVjjoaZdEuX2hM4ouq63Z9/37HkApcRYgdg/0MO/fwPf5Ex xWwuu7t8fE82c4U0pkW2eF6z7hE+O7eom5Jak= Received: by 10.100.206.20 with SMTP id d20mr6557563ang.110.1291872116089; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 21:21:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (adsl-95-133-127.jan.bellsouth.net [98.95.133.127]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b26sm1498172anb.33.2010.12.08.21.21.54 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 08 Dec 2010 21:21:54 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D006771.5090707@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:21:53 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.15) Gecko/20101109 Gentoo/2.0.10 SeaMonkey/2.0.10 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 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] About to install on a 64 bit system. Advice wanted. References: <4CFFF5DE.20303@gmail.com> <201012090328.00447.wonko@wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: <201012090328.00447.wonko@wonkology.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b518644a-63b6-4d8e-949f-7d9588037d1e X-Archives-Hash: 5d21071dbe537bf6b47aece7a153db76 Alex Schuster wrote: > 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 > > > I don't have anything that I generated anyway. I have something installed that KDE pulled in if I recall correctly. I'll let KDE start off fresh tho. This does bring me to another thought tho. Would I be able to copy my /home directory over from a x86 system? I'm thinking I would but want to make sure. Thanks Dale :-) :-)