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[Lubomir Blaha <tritol AT trilogic.cz>]

On 27.09.2006 22:21:36 CEST Daniel Goller wrote:
> If you are still interested, please try:
> 
> http://morfic.homelinux.org:8080/smgl-x86_64-silver-thistel.iso
> 
> It sports an amd64 livecd, has the required tarball and tools included
>  to install said tarball.
> after partitioning and formatting the created partitions a script
> ('enter_camelot') if used should ease installation on the disk.
> bootloader, /etc/fstab and passwd have to be manually installed/updated.
> the CD is meant to aid in installation until the final product of an
> amd64/x86_64 installer CD is finalized.

I followed your suggestion, discard whole / and start new install but 
installation
from this source is not easy and I had some troubles, but I didn't give up
and now I have x86_64 box up and running with most of previously used 
programs.
Thanks to all installer gurus that ordinal users can install SMGL easier way 
:).


> your goal was to convert the system, which *SHOULD* be possible too,
> but is not for the faint of heart. It would save you more time to
> actually reinstall, just saving all config dirs (/etc/ and /home/.*) and
> data (/home)

...and downloaded sources of course, it takes about 3 GB and its no good to
download it again :)


> hope this helps

a lot! thanks

But I have few new questions:

1. Some programs are not x86_64 ready and some can't be (wine etc.). How 
build these?
I have 32b emulation in kernel and smgl-emul32 but it probably need more.

2. I have been using destop SMGL to build SMGL on (slow) notebook via distcc. 
Is
this still possible when platforms differs? (x86_64 vs. i586)

        Lubomir


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