Re: Amd64 status

[Bharath Ramesh <bramesh@vt.edu>]

* YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / ?$B5HF#1QL@ (yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org) wrote:
> I did the following:
> 
> | # mkdir /path/to/pure64-chroot
> | # cd /path/to/pure64-chroot
> | # mkdir lib
> | # ln -s lib lib64
> | # mkdir usr
> | # cd usr
> | # mkdir lib
> | # ln -s lib lib64
> | # cdebootstrap --arch amd64 sid /path/to/pure64-chroot ftp://bytekeeper.as28747.net/amd64/jgoerzen/amd64
> | I: Installing the Debian system
> :
> | P: Extracting findutils
> | P: Extracting makedev
> | P: Doing something important
> | E: Couldn't install root!
>

I hope that you have a 64bit kernel running already to do this. If you
dont have a 64bit kernel then it will break. I would say get a 64bit
kernel with 32 bit emulation. Boot your 32bit base system using the
64bit kernel and then try this again.

Bharath

> What should I do from here?
> 
> I've read <http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/04/msg01794.html>,
> but I don't understand how I can move forward...

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Bharath Ramesh       <bramesh@vt.edu>       http://csgrad.cs.vt.edu/~bramesh