--- 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). __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list