From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IZe3b-0003Ew-E5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 02:52:23 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l8O2guKl025008; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 02:42:56 GMT Received: from mail.osagesoftware.com (osagesoftware.com [216.144.204.42]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l8O2cccg020128 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 02:38:38 GMT Received: from osage.osagesoftware.com (osage.osagesoftware.com [192.168.1.10]) by mail.osagesoftware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09BAE94263; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:38:37 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:38:36 -0400 From: David Relson To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: laebshade@gmail.com Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST Message-ID: <20070923223836.41afe36b@osage.osagesoftware.com> In-Reply-To: <642958cc0709231916v4588201cuc264f745ff202aee@mail.gmail.com> References: <20070922201346.63f96ad4@osage.osagesoftware.com> <642958cc0709231916v4588201cuc264f745ff202aee@mail.gmail.com> Organization: Osage Software Systems, Inc. X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.1 (GTK+ 2.10.14; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 498028c2-98c7-4ebb-b6bd-6361e0df3740 X-Archives-Hash: 798cbbb6267ac6ae8682276f80c79b82 On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:16:03 -0400 Mark Shields wrote: ...[snip]... > Besides what everyone else has already suggested, I would suggest > backing up everything beforehand, or you can continue using your > 32-bit environment with your shiny new 64-bit processor, but you will > not be able to use any 64-bit binaries. > > -- > - Mark Shields Hi Mark, Backups happen regularly, so that's not an issue. I recall installing Gentoo as being a P.I.T.A, hence take no pleasure in the idea of re-installing. I was hoping for something relatively simple, like changing CHOST and emerging world unpacking amd64 stage3 tarball on top of root or something else Hopefully a year of running Gentoo and emerging regularly and tweaking config files will make the install less painful. Regards, David P.S. I did experiment with unpacking the stage3 tarball into a chroot environment and found that 64-bit ELF executables aren't recognized. Sigh :-< -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list