From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] About to install on a 64 bit system. Advice wanted.
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 17:17:18 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=hBR+DJqphr7ZnOT0wLK2xuAmh=v4mvxFXqYfn@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D002218.9060302@gmail.com>
>
> Now I have a question. How do I tell Gentoo to make it pure 64 or a mix of
> 32 and 64? I have read about this but I don't think I have actually seen
> where it is set. Is it a profile selection, USE flag or something else?
>
It's a profile choice. Here's a FAQ link that discusses it.
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-amd64-faq.xml
Thing is it's sort of a choice you want to make once and not change in
the future, or so I'm told.
> If I decide on one then want to switch to the other, does that require a
> reinstall or just a change in settings and a recompile of world?
>
> Since I use KDE, I always use Okular to view pdf files. I assume KDE is 64
> bit ready.
Absolutely 64-bit ready. I'm in it right now. ;-)
- Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-09 2:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-08 21:17 [gentoo-amd64] About to install on a 64 bit system. Advice wanted Dale
2010-12-08 22:23 ` Mark Knecht
2010-12-09 0:04 ` Dale
2010-12-09 2:13 ` Stan Sander
2010-12-09 4:51 ` Frank Peters
2010-12-09 5:32 ` Dale
2010-12-09 7:42 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2010-12-09 16:28 ` Dale
2010-12-09 19:55 ` Duncan
2010-12-09 5:13 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Dale
2010-12-09 8:53 ` J. Roeleveld
2010-12-09 10:04 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2010-12-09 15:19 ` Frank Peters
2010-12-09 16:37 ` Dale
2010-12-09 17:37 ` Harry Holt
2010-12-09 18:40 ` Dale
2010-12-09 16:39 ` Dale
2010-12-09 15:22 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Stan Sander
2010-12-09 16:42 ` Dale
2010-12-09 8:48 ` J. Roeleveld
2010-12-09 15:48 ` Dale
2010-12-10 12:09 ` J. Roeleveld
2010-12-08 22:58 ` Mateusz Arkadiusz Mierzwinski
2010-12-09 0:08 ` Dale
2010-12-08 23:03 ` Frank Peters
2010-12-09 0:26 ` Dale
2010-12-09 1:13 ` Mateusz Arkadiusz Mierzwinski
2010-12-09 5:29 ` Dale
2010-12-09 9:48 ` Florian Philipp
2010-12-09 11:43 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2010-12-09 16:47 ` Dale
2010-12-09 11:58 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Paul Jewell
2010-12-09 14:09 ` Mateusz Arkadiusz Mierzwinski
2010-12-09 15:13 ` Mark Knecht
2010-12-09 16:53 ` Dale
2010-12-09 20:22 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2010-12-09 14:52 ` [gentoo-amd64] " J. Roeleveld
2010-12-09 16:55 ` Dale
2010-12-09 18:03 ` Mark Knecht
2010-12-10 12:34 ` Alex Alexander
2010-12-11 2:12 ` Dale
2010-12-09 15:27 ` Frank Peters
2010-12-09 16:26 ` Harry Holt
2010-12-09 17:04 ` Lie Ryan
2010-12-09 19:01 ` Frank Peters
2010-12-09 20:09 ` Harry Holt
2010-12-09 1:17 ` Mark Knecht [this message]
2010-12-09 1:54 ` Frank Peters
2010-12-09 4:41 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2010-12-09 5:18 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Dale
2010-12-09 6:55 ` Thomas M
2010-12-09 7:26 ` Dale
2010-12-09 9:36 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2010-12-09 4:13 ` Duncan
2010-12-09 6:11 ` Dale
2010-12-09 11:10 ` Duncan
2010-12-09 15:36 ` Frank Peters
2010-12-09 20:05 ` Duncan
2010-12-09 23:22 ` Dale
2010-12-10 12:54 ` Thanasis
2010-12-10 22:48 ` Duncan
2010-12-09 2:27 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Alex Schuster
2010-12-09 5:21 ` Dale
2010-12-09 9:33 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2010-12-09 10:12 ` Florian Philipp
2010-12-09 11:18 ` Duncan
2010-12-09 17:03 ` Dale
2010-12-09 20:33 ` Duncan
2010-12-09 21:45 ` Alex Schuster
2010-12-09 23:28 ` Dale
2010-12-10 11:59 ` J. Roeleveld
2010-12-10 13:16 ` Dale
2010-12-09 10:06 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Stefan G. Weichinger
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