On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 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 > > I don't know for sure, but I would guess that if you don't try to use any file from the new 64 bit partition, that would be fine. AFAIK you can install a 64 bit system using the 32 bit livecd. Just a guess, though Francisco -- "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have one idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." - George Bernard Shaw
