Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: 32bit session

[Gavin Seddon <gavin.m.seddon@manchester.ac.uk>]

Dear Duncan, 
thanks.  This appears a mission.  I will have to reinst. Gentoo and
create a 32 partition.  Can you recommend a url of howto proceed thence.
Gavin.




On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 11:57 +0000, Duncan wrote:
> Gavin Seddon <gavin.m.seddon@manchester.ac.uk> posted
> 1153306577.4247.7.camel@linuxstation.homenetwork, excerpted below, on 
> Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:56:17 +0100:
> 
> > Is it poss. to start a 32bit session so the whole desktop is 32bit?
> 
> If you've installed a complete 32-bit chroot installation, with everything
> you want to run, on a different partition so you can select it with root=
> on the kernel command line, and if it has been configured sufficiently to
> boot independently (with the appropriate 32-bit kernel, modules, daemons,
> and /etc files such as fstab fully configured), yes.
> 
> Basically, it's effectively a fully independent multi-boot system, where
> the one boot option happens to be an x86 32-bit Gentoo that's also
> configured as a 32-bit chroot to your 64-bit amd64 Gentoo.  The multi-boot
> side of it could just as easily be MSWormOS or Fedora or Ubunto or FreeBSD
> or whatever, but then of course it wouldn't work as a 32-bit chroot of
> your Gentoo amd64 boot.
> 
> There's also an experimental and still-broken 32-bit userland profile, I
> believe, which would be a 64-bit kernel with 32-bit everything else (don't
> know how the toolchain would work, as a cross-compile or as a 64-bit
> multilib, but all regular apps would be 32-bit anyway).  However, I'd not
> suggest that except for the EXTREMELY adventurous, those already running
> ~arch and a whole host of masked packages, and thinking that's far too
> stable and troublefree for their liking, as it will easily make
> ~arch+masked look like a walk in the park.
> 
> 
> -- 
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> "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
> and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman
> 
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Dr Gavin Seddon
Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of Manchester
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M13 9PL
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