Re: Advice for "crossgrading" from 32 bit F11 to x64 ?

2009-10-02 Thread Paul
Robin Laing wrote: > Linuxguy123 wrote: >> On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 19:29 -0700, Kam Leo wrote: >>> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Linuxguy123 >>> wrote: I do a lot of photo processing... things like generating 200 jpgs from raw files at one go. My laptop has 4GB of RAM but is currently

Re: Advice for "crossgrading" from 32 bit F11 to x64 ?

2009-10-02 Thread Robin Laing
Linuxguy123 wrote: On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 19:29 -0700, Kam Leo wrote: On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: I do a lot of photo processing... things like generating 200 jpgs from raw files at one go. My laptop has 4GB of RAM but is currently only using 3GB because I am running a

Re: Advice for "crossgrading" from 32 bit F11 to x64 ?

2009-09-30 Thread Alan Cox
> 1) force-install a 64-bit kernel, 64 bit glibc, and 64 bit init. I'm pretty > sure that the 32 bit mkinitrd will barf when it tries to assemble an initrd > for the 64 bit kernel. You'll have to unpack your current mkinitrd, look > inside, enumerate all the modules that it loads, than manually

Re: Advice for "crossgrading" from 32 bit F11 to x64 ?

2009-09-29 Thread Linuxguy123
On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 23:32 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Linuxguy123 writes: > > > I do a lot of photo processing... things like generating 200 jpgs from > > raw files at one go. My laptop has 4GB of RAM but is currently only > > using 3GB because I am running a 32 bit kernel. > > Why led y

Re: Advice for "crossgrading" from 32 bit F11 to x64 ?

2009-09-29 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Linuxguy123 writes: I do a lot of photo processing... things like generating 200 jpgs from raw files at one go. My laptop has 4GB of RAM but is currently only using 3GB because I am running a 32 bit kernel. Why led you to this conclusion? 32 bit Linux is perfectly capable of addressing 4 G

Re: Advice for "crossgrading" from 32 bit F11 to x64 ?

2009-09-29 Thread Clint Dilks
Linuxguy123 wrote: On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 19:29 -0700, Kam Leo wrote: On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: I do a lot of photo processing... things like generating 200 jpgs from raw files at one go. My laptop has 4GB of RAM but is currently only using 3GB because I am r

Re: Advice for "crossgrading" from 32 bit F11 to x64 ?

2009-09-29 Thread Linuxguy123
On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 19:29 -0700, Kam Leo wrote: > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > I do a lot of photo processing... things like generating 200 jpgs from > > raw files at one go. My laptop has 4GB of RAM but is currently only > > using 3GB because I am running a 32 bit k

Re: Advice for "crossgrading" from 32 bit F11 to x64 ?

2009-09-29 Thread Kam Leo
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > I do a lot of photo processing... things like generating 200 jpgs from > raw files at one go.   My laptop has 4GB of RAM but is currently only > using 3GB because I am running a 32 bit kernel. > > uname -a > Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.30.8

Advice for "crossgrading" from 32 bit F11 to x64 ?

2009-09-29 Thread Linuxguy123
I do a lot of photo processing... things like generating 200 jpgs from raw files at one go. My laptop has 4GB of RAM but is currently only using 3GB because I am running a 32 bit kernel. uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i586 #1 SMP Fri Sep 25 04:30:19 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i38