Re: Transitioning to 64bit, is it worth it, and how

On Monday 06 August 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 12:55:46PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote:
> > >On 8/4/07, Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> wrote:
> > >>I have a Core2 Duo on which I am running a 686 kernel (from
> > >> Debian unstable). It has 1GB of memory
> > >>
> > >>I am wondering two things
> > >>
> > >>a) What are the pros and cons in switching to 64 bit mode?
> > >> - Is it faster?
> >
> > I am only responding to this particular message in the thread
> > because my computer is still not fully operational and this is the
> > only way (at the moment) to comment on this process.
>
> [snip many woes]
>
> When you ran the installer, did you start from scratch? Did you
> start by removing your existing partitions? I don't think you can
> reuse a 32-bit software raid setup on 64-bit (don't know, never
> tried).

I needed to keep my LVM on Raid partition, because that was where my home was. That part worked great. It would seem to me a really bad idea to not have compatibility between the two.

I only destroyed the /boot and swap partitions whilst I resized them (inside the partitioner inside the installer), and then told the partitioner in the installer to set them up as raid (you go into a raid submenu to create a raid device). The / (root) partition I asked the installer to reformat, but didn't change it

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Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk


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