lördag 10 april 2004 10:26 skrev Andreas Jaeger:

A 64-bit kernel...

That's the easy part ... Hard part is, that it also demands the ld-linux to be 64-bit. And then the question is, what's the minimum number of packages I have to forcefeed, to get a system that won't break on startup. Since the process being used here, is similar to the difference between libc5 and libc6 some years back, and that was a real pain in the backside.

Andreas

Andreas Jaeger wrote:

Örn Hansen writes:

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lördag 10 april 2004 10:26 skrev Andreas Jaeger:

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A 64-bit kernel...

That's the easy part ...

Hard part is, that it also demands the ld-linux to be 64-bit. And then the

A static program won't need it.

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question is, what's the minimum number of packages I have to forcefeed, to get a system that won't break on startup. Since the process being used here, is similar to the difference between libc5 and libc6 some years back, and that was a real pain in the backside.

We're on the suse-amd64 list, so let me advertise a bit ;-): Get yourself SUSE Linux Professional 9.0 for AMD64 or 9.1 Professional. That way you get a full distribution and don't need to reinvent everything...

Andreas

WRT that last recommendation, if I go buy 9.0 or 9.1 Professional at CompUSA, will it include AMD64 support, or do I have to retreive that from SuSE's FTP site ? What about 9.0 or 9.1 Personal ? TIA

lördag 10 april 2004 13:22 skrev Andreas Jaeger:

We're on the suse-amd64 list, so let me advertise a bit ;-): Get yourself SUSE Linux Professional 9.0 for AMD64 or 9.1 Professional. That way you get a full distribution and don't need to reinvent everything...

I did buy the 9.0 Professional, only the 32bit version. And I'll wait to buy another, until the 9.1 becomes available here. Which is usually about two to three weeks, after it's released. In the meantime, I did the conversion ... and it took hours, ugh. These are the steps I took. 1. Replace running kernel with 64bit version. 2. Replace glibc and friends, with both 32bit and 64bit versions. This part went fine, the system was working great. It should also be quite enough for anyone, only wanting to run 64bit programs, unfortunately mine also had a 64bit X frontend, so I couldn't stop here. At this point, YaST should be ones best friend. However, I hand converted a few programs to get away cheaply or to only have to re-install X and friends, and ended up having to to the total conversion anyway. I ended up, letting YaST do the conversion. However, YaST still shows an i386 based system in the dialog box, when I want to do an "upgrade" ... anyone know how to change this part?

Andreas