Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-25 Thread Florian Philipp
Daniel Barkalow schrieb: > On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Florian Philipp wrote: > >> Just a thought: Is it possible to compile a 64bit kernel and use him on >> the current system? That way you could set up your new native 64bit >> system in a chroot before overwriting the old one and thus minimize >> downt

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-25 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Florian Philipp wrote: > Just a thought: Is it possible to compile a 64bit kernel and use him on > the current system? That way you could set up your new native 64bit > system in a chroot before overwriting the old one and thus minimize > downtime to less than 15 minutes. Bui

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-24 Thread Doug Whitesell
On Sep 24, 2007, at 5:03 PM, David Relson wrote: Just a thought: Is it possible to compile a 64bit kernel and use him on the current system? That way you could set up your new native 64bit system in a chroot before overwriting the old one and thus minimize downtime to less than 15 minutes. F

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-24 Thread David Relson
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:17:53 +0200 Florian Philipp wrote: > Neil Bothwick schrieb: ...[snip]... > > Unpacking a stage 3 tarball on top of a working system is a good > > way of converting it to a non-working system. It will also > > overwrite many of your settings in /etc. > > > > If you are going

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-24 Thread Florian Philipp
Neil Bothwick schrieb: > On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:38:36 -0400, David Relson wrote: > >> I recall installing Gentoo as being a P.I.T.A, hence take no pleasure >> in the idea of re-installing. I was hoping for something relatively >> simple, like >>changing CHOST and emerging world >>unpackin

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:38:36 -0400, David Relson wrote: > I recall installing Gentoo as being a P.I.T.A, hence take no pleasure > in the idea of re-installing. I was hoping for something relatively > simple, like >changing CHOST and emerging world >unpacking amd64 stage3 tarball on top of

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-23 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:16:03 -0400 Mark Shields wrote: ...[snip]... > Besides what everyone else has already suggested, I would suggest > backing up everything beforehand, or you can continue using your > 32-bit environment with your shiny new 64-bit processor, but you will > not be able to use a

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-23 Thread Mark Shields
On 9/22/07, David Relson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Now that my old AthlonXP mobo has been replaced by an AMD 64 X2 mobo, > it's time for upgrading CHOST :-> > > According to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml after a > couple of changes to /etc/make.conf, i.e. > > from: >U

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 23. September 2007, Marc Redmann wrote: > > boot from cd > > Don't want to start a flame war here, but why should he use reiserfs ??? it was an example. And I am free to choose any fs I want for that. Exept jfs. Besides reiserfs is a good fs, so no harm done. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-23 Thread Marc Redmann
> boot from cd Don't want to start a flame war here, but why should he use reiserfs ??? I think he can use whatever filesystem he wishes to ... > mkfs.reiserfs > start stage3 installation. brgds, Marc -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-23 Thread Doug Whitesell
On Sep 22, 2007, at 5:13 PM, David Relson wrote: Now that my old AthlonXP mobo has been replaced by an AMD 64 X2 mobo, it's time for upgrading CHOST :-> According to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml after a couple of changes to /etc/make.conf, i.e. from: USE="x86 ..."

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-23 Thread Doug Whitesell
On Sep 23, 2007, at 5:47 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sonntag, 23. September 2007, David Relson wrote: Now that my old AthlonXP mobo has been replaced by an AMD 64 X2 mobo, it's time for upgrading CHOST :-> According to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml after a couple of chan

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 23. September 2007, David Relson wrote: > Now that my old AthlonXP mobo has been replaced by an AMD 64 X2 mobo, > it's time for upgrading CHOST :-> > > According to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml after a > couple of changes to /etc/make.conf, i.e. > > from: >USE

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-22 Thread Albert Hopkins
Oops, forgot to paste the link: http://starship.python.net/crew/marduk/blog/entry/1112117933.9,14473 -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-22 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 03:43 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > Changing CHOST is valid when you have e.g. an i386 CHOST and want to > change it > to i686. It is not an option for going from 32 bit to 64 bit. You need > to > reinstall. Below is what I did a few years ago. YMMV. There may be a

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-22 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Sunday 23 September 2007 02:13:46 David Relson wrote: > Now that my old AthlonXP mobo has been replaced by an AMD 64 X2 mobo, > it's time for upgrading CHOST :-> > > According to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml after a > couple of changes to /etc/make.conf, i.e. > > from: >

[gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-22 Thread David Relson
Now that my old AthlonXP mobo has been replaced by an AMD 64 X2 mobo, it's time for upgrading CHOST :-> According to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml after a couple of changes to /etc/make.conf, i.e. from: USE="x86 ..." CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -ma

Re: [gentoo-user] changing CHOST

2006-09-13 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 9/13/06, Timothy A. Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/12/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 9/12/06, darren kirby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > system. The cpu instructions are forward (but not backward) > compatible. Thus, > > > I did not think it necessary for a who

RE: [gentoo-user] changing CHOST

2006-09-13 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
> On 9/12/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 9/12/06, darren kirby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > system. The cpu instructions are forward (but not backward) > compatible. Thus, > > > I did not think it necessary for a wholesale rebuild of the entire > system on > > > the spot. In

Re: [gentoo-user] changing CHOST

2006-09-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/12/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 9/12/06, darren kirby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > system. The cpu instructions are forward (but not backward) compatible. Thus, > I did not think it necessary for a wholesale rebuild of the entire system on > the spot. Indeed it seems this i

Re: [gentoo-user] changing CHOST

2006-09-13 Thread Nagatoro
Timothy A. Holmes wrote: > Hi folks: > > In the course of learning gentoo, I managed to create several systems > using the wrong stage 3 tarballs (or something) > > They all have a CHOST setting of i386 > > Should I change this? What benefits will it bring me, and Since the new glibc - yes >

Re: [gentoo-user] changing CHOST

2006-09-12 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Richard Fish: > > BTW, Darren's answer on this thread seems incorrect to me. Changing > CHOST is a pretty significant thing to tweak, certainly as significant > as changing gcc versions, and you really should re-merge *everything* > to make sure your something doesn't wind up broken. Hi

RE: [gentoo-user] changing CHOST

2006-09-10 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Richard Fish Sent: Sun 9/10/2006 2:30 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] changing CHOST On 9/10/06, Timothy A. Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard: > > I got this one - thanks,

Re: [gentoo-user] changing CHOST

2006-09-10 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: "Jean-Marc Beaune" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] changing CHOST Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 18:39:07 +0200 Hi, I had to change CHOST also and I can only speak of my experience -- which may be based on the wrong way to do such things, but... I did: Chan

Re: [gentoo-user] changing CHOST

2006-09-10 Thread Jean-Marc Beaune
Hi,   I had to change CHOST during gcc upgrade. I did bootstrap.sh I did emerge -e system emerge -e world didn't work.   I struggled more than one week to make it work, now I'm reinstalling from scratch.   My advise: Backup all important data and excpect the fact that you could lost your system.  O

RE: [gentoo-user] changing CHOST

2006-09-10 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
> -Original Message- > On 9/9/06, Timothy A. Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As I understand it, I change the chost, and then emerge -e system && > > emerge -e world > > Hmm, same answer I gave you yesterday: > > > /usr/portage/scripts/bootstrap.sh > emerge -e system > emerge -e w

Re: [gentoo-user] changing CHOST

2006-09-09 Thread John J. Foster
On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 05:34:55PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > > Me thinks the mail list bug has struck again. Let me know if you > don't get this one. ;-> > Just an FYI - I didn't get your other mail. festus -- In all the millions of years dinosaurs roamed this planet, did any of them feel

Re: [gentoo-user] changing CHOST

2006-09-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/9/06, Timothy A. Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As I understand it, I change the chost, and then emerge -e system && emerge -e world Hmm, same answer I gave you yesterday: /usr/portage/scripts/bootstrap.sh emerge -e system emerge -e world Me thinks the mail list bug has struck again.

Re: [gentoo-user] changing CHOST

2006-09-09 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Timothy A. Holmes: > Hi folks: > > In the course of learning gentoo, I managed to create several systems > using the wrong stage 3 tarballs (or something) > > They all have a CHOST setting of i386 > > Should I change this? What benefits will it bring me, and Depends on your type of proce

Re: [gentoo-user] changing CHOST

2006-09-09 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 09 September 2006 18:54, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: > Hi folks: > [SNIP] Replying to another thread and changed the subject like this is referred to as hijacking a thread. Please don't do that. Instead post a new email to this list with the new subject. New mail rather than reply... T

[gentoo-user] changing CHOST

2006-09-09 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
Hi folks: In the course of learning gentoo, I managed to create several systems using the wrong stage 3 tarballs (or something) They all have a CHOST setting of i386 Should I change this? What benefits will it bring me, and How do I do it? As I understand it, I change the chost, and then eme