--- Antonino Sabetta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> > If you want a 64 bit userland then you should
> start
> > over with an AMD64 stage.
>
> So you mean that whenever the hardware platform
> changes are
> so substantial (as in this case), one should install
> the system
> from scratch?
> Please, bear with me, I'm a new Gentoo user, even
> though I've
> been using Linux for a while...
The amd64 processors are backward compatible with 32
bit x86 code. However, they also support a new x86_64
code. The x86_64 code itself is not backward
compatible, so it requires different stage (AMD64).
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