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----- Original Message -----
From: seth AT swoolley.homeip.net
Date: Thursday, August 31, 2006 11:56 am
Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] SMGL migration form 32b to 64b
To: Lubomir Blaha <tritol AT trilogic.cz>
Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org

> On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 12:59:22PM +0200, Lubomir Blaha wrote:
> > Hello.
> > 
> > I bought new hardware (AMD64X2) and I want migrate my existing 
> SMGL box
> > (AthlonXP) to 64bit. Is it possible? I don't wanna install 
> everything again
> > from x86_64 iso. Sometimes I need to run 32b apps (binary games) 
> so I need
> > "Multilib way". I can't find any howto or similar text.
> 
> Install it into a separate partition that you can chroot to.  Make 
> sure 
> to copy the kernel from the iso into your /boot when you do this so 
> that 
> you can boot 64/32 hybrid style.  Then you can build a pure 64-bit 
> kernel from that.  If you need details/walkthrough, I'm on irc.
> 
> You have to install everything again from the x86_64 iso to get 
> enough 
> 64-bit stuff to bootstrap from.  We don't support native 
> cross-compilation for this converstion yet.
> 
> And we don't technically support multilib.  You can enable multilib 
> in 
> the relevent spells, but spells that break with multilib are your 
> own 
> problem and installing the multilib headers are your own problem.  
> If 
> you really want multilib supported, you can volunteer to maintain 
> the 
> multlib headers and be the central contact.
> 
> Most of the x86_64 developers/users here run a pure 64-bit 64-bit 
> system 



My suggestion is to answer all sorcery question regarding multilib with
"N" on glibc and gcc, and cast smgl-emul32 (in the tarball referenced
below this has already occured)

It is a collection of 32bit libs that allow you to run 32bit
applications, it should even allow you to run your 32bit games, as a
matter of fact i would like to hear from you if they do not.
Then i would work on smgl-emul32 to make sure your games do work with it.

The smgl-emul32 spell is in essence what other distros do for multilib,
with one major difference, the glibc on other multilib systems is built
natively, here everything is static.

So follow swooley's suggestion by starting things in a chroot.
I would suggest using this tarball to start from:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/sourcemage/mirror/smgl-x86_64.tar.bz2

Installing from the x86_64 CD in existence would have you work around
the arch spec change since creation of the CD (CHOST changed from
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu to x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

If you have any questions regarding the x86_64/smgl-emul32 install, find
me on IRC 'morfic' or 'morphish'

hope this helps,

Daniel


> without multilib because we tend to run everything from source and 
> not 
> require proprietary games for our enjoyment (nethack is good enough).
> 
> Again, see me in irc (swoolley) to talk more.
> 
> Seth
> 
> > 
> > Thanks for any suggestion
> > 
> >     Lubomir
> > 
> > -- 
> > Win98 is called Win98 because it is 98% slower than Linux.
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