On Thursday 24 December 2009 16:33:26 Carlos Moyano Cubillos wrote: > Dear friends, > > I have a gentoo system running 32bit .. and I have a 30GB partition > available on which I would like to install a 64bit Gentoo to test for > 64bit extensions processor supports . > > > someone could help me and tell me how to proceed with this > installation from my running system without having to reboot with a > livecd.
You have to reboot with a LiveCD. Your running 32 bit kernel does not support 64 bit instructions and there is no magic voodoo to make it possible. The CPU might understand 64 bit instructions but the running kernel that drives it definitely does not. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
