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kyPixel
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 Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 6:41 pm Post subject: Switching Architectures, need advice. |
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I plan on upgrading my p4 2.8 chip and mother board up to a AMD 4000+ with a Asus K8N-SLI-Premium.
I'm not worried about how well it will support me, but, what will need to be done to preserve as much as I can with my current install, and what I still be able to use once I switch architectures... if anything... |
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Qdot
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Hmm.. What I'd do in your case is extract current amd64 stage3 on top of existing / (from amd64 livecd), install the clean kernel, modify the /etc/make.conf and than
| Code: | | emerge -e system; emerge -e world; emerge -e world; |
and hunt any remaining bugs |
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mattmatteh
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i would make a backup of everything incase if fails
32 but to 64 seems tricky.
maybe even find another hard drive to copy over and upgrade or fresh install.
i think a fresh install is better. not sure, my guess
i do know there are differences between the 32 and 64 bit systems.
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Qdot
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Well.. backups are good anyway..
I managed to do just what I mentioned, however from AthlonMP -> Opteron, but except some minor xorg and ndiswrapper reconfigurations most things went smooth (around October'04, ~x86 -> ~amd64) |
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| Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 7:51 pm Post subject: |
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| of course, you will have to recompile all external kernel modules as well.. |
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