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[johnc AT neto.com]

On Saturday 09 September 2006 13:22, you wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Sep 2006 15:18:32 -0500
> johnc AT neto.com wrote:
>
>
> sorry this email slipped past me.
>
> I should have replied differently before.
>
> yes, you could do the
> partition switcharoo "Towers of Hanoi" style
>
> you could install from this for now:
>
> http://www.applia.fr/contents/knoppix64.html
>
> or a minimal livecd of any 64bit distro that gives you a shell that has
> tar/bunzip2/chroot/mount/fs tools
>
> hopefully there is a 64bit CD of our own creation that you can use for
> this sometime soon.

Daniel, it's Ok.  I finally got it figured out.
I installed the basic system from:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/sourcemage/mirror/smgl-x86_64.tar.bz2

I then installed pppd for internet access.
I had a 64bit LinuxFromScratch system I built some time ago, so I used the 
kernel from LFS and chroot'ed into the the basic system. When this worked I 
made the basic system bootable.

Now I am in the process of slowly building a pure 64bit system, slowly 
because 
I am on the end of a dial-up to the internet out in the country where I 
live(28.8 kbs).

I have had one small problem.  I built my kernel with ppp(8250 serial driver) 
as a module.  When I tried to install the 8250 driver, it installed but did 
not create the /dev/ttyS0 device.  I built the driver in the kernel and it 
works OK.  Do either of you know of module problems with 64bit?

Thanks to both for your help.  I will plod on and keep SM-Discuss informed to 
maybe help anyone else with 64bit.

John