On Sonntag, 24. August 2008, Anthony Metcalf wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Friday 22 August 2008 17:48:32 Anthony Metcalf wrote: > >> What about re-building every single package, and re-installing it isn't > >> a complete -reinstall? > >> > >> I can understand that this wouldn't work without the re-boot to live cd > >> step, as you would end up with incompatible libraries/binaries, and with > >> a 32bit kernel trying to run 64bit apps and crap.....but this should > >> avoid all that, with minimal downtime..... > > > > Looks easy right? > > > > So, what tool chain on this 32 bit machine are you going to use to build > > the 64 bit binaries you actually want to output? > > > > You know you are going to do heaps of setup actions, build a new tool > > chain then essentially do emerge -e world. > > > > Much easier to just copy stuff off a 64-bit stage3 then do emerge -e > > world. > > Easier, probably, but I am bothered about downtime on this machine too, > it doesn't do anything vital, but it is a mail server..From other > responses though, it looks like it may be better to just get VMWare > accepting that it is running on a 64bit CPU...... > > Thanks for all the rsponses!
why downtime? just create a directory, install the 64bit gentoo in that directory. Tar everything up, boot from livecd, untar the tar into the old system. Done. Downtime depends on the speed of your harddisks. Something between 5 and 30minutes. Top. Btw, why mailserver?
