"Updating" i386 to x86_64

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Tuesday, June 28, 2005 2:06 PM -0700 Kenneth Porter 
<shiva at sewingwitch.com> wrote:

> Now I have to look up how to resize the partition. I probably can't do it
> on the root partition so I may have to grab a "live CD" and do it with
> that. System currently has 3 primaries, WinXP64, FC4, and swap. (For some
> reason the FC4 installer didn't give me the option to put it an extended
> partition.)

parted in rescue mode refused to touch the partition, something about an 
unimplemented feature. So I just deleted sda2 from XP and created 3 new 
logical partitions of 16 GB each (sda5-sda7), one each for i386 and x86_64, 
and one common partition to share between them. Plus a 2 GB swap in sda8.

I then couldn't find any software to burn the DVD on my NEC burner. I tried 
xcdroast with cdrecord-ProDVD but it didn't like the drive. So I ended up 
burning the DVD-R using Nero on my other system running Win2k. It was 
bootable but corrupt, so I ended up copying the image from my server to the 
common partition using rescue mode and scp, and doing a hard disk ISO 
install. Then I had to reinstall the i386 version. So now I have XP64, FC4 
i386, and FC4 x86_64 in a triple-boot configuration.