Thank you very much to all who responded. I received my hardware today and will be rebuilding the machine from scratch. :-) Regards, -tracy
-----Original Message----- From: Zac Medico [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 7:20 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade procedure question --- Emmanuel Durin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Athlon64 processors can execute 32 bits instructions. But you can't > use 32 bits executables with 64 bits libraries (or contrary), and this > will append while recompiling your system (when a library used by > emerge or gcc will be recompiled), so it should fail at any time. I > think it can be done, respecting a certain order and maintaining > executables links to librairies by hand. Already it's not really > recommended to modify the CHOST variable without starting with a stage This could be done if you were to untar an AMD64 stage tarball on top of your 32 bit system. You would need an x86_64 kernel (like the one on the install cd). I don't recommend this and doubt anyone else would. ;-) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new Resources site http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
