Re: [gentoo-user] 32to64 bit migration guide

2010-09-09 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 11:09:15PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote > You will find the occasional issue with brain-dead proprietary > software products (note carefully how I'm NOT looking at Adobe...) but > that is fixable with nsspuginwrapper. Note that WINE requires 32-bit support libraries instal

Re: [gentoo-user] 32to64 bit migration guide

2010-09-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 21:08 on Tuesday 07 September 2010, SpaceCake did opine thusly: > Thank you. > > The reason to change to 64bit is maybe I'll have 8 GB instead of 4GB of > memory. PAE is already enabled in kernel, so I have no problem accessing > memory above 3Gbyte. Is there any

Re: [gentoo-user] 32to64 bit migration guide

2010-09-07 Thread SpaceCake
Thank you. The reason to change to 64bit is maybe I'll have 8 GB instead of 4GB of memory. PAE is already enabled in kernel, so I have no problem accessing memory above 3Gbyte. Is there any performance increase can be expected if I spend my time on this migration/reinstall? Thanks Laszlo 2010/9

Re: [gentoo-user] 32to64 bit migration guide

2010-09-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 07.09.2010 18:05, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > 1. Back up /etc and anything else you want to keep > 2. Reinstall > 3. Set CHOST to something suitable > 4. emerge -e world > 5. Restore stuff from step #1 > > It's an interesting exercise to try and do the migration, people who like > puzzles enjoy

Re: [gentoo-user] 32to64 bit migration guide

2010-09-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 17:44 on Tuesday 07 September 2010, SpaceCake did opine thusly: > Hi, > > Is there a user friendly guide or howto to help me to migrate my 32 bit > gentoo to 64 bit without loosing my settings? > > Thank you > Laszlo Forget it, don't even try. You might succeed

Re: [gentoo-user] 32to64 bit migration guide

2010-09-07 Thread Alex Schuster
SpaceCake writes: > Is there a user friendly guide or howto to help me to migrate my 32 bit > gentoo to 64 bit without loosing my settings? A similar question came up just yesterday, look for the 'Gentoo 32bit- >64bit: How?' thread. Wonko

[gentoo-user] 32to64 bit migration guide

2010-09-07 Thread SpaceCake
Hi, Is there a user friendly guide or howto to help me to migrate my 32 bit gentoo to 64 bit without loosing my settings? Thank you Laszlo