From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PRFje-00016h-KI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 11 Dec 2010 03:02:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2829BE074E for ; Sat, 11 Dec 2010 03:02:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f181.google.com (mail-yx0-f181.google.com [209.85.213.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DA90E0683 for ; Sat, 11 Dec 2010 02:12:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxd39 with SMTP id 39so3553292yxd.40 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:12:37 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=JtB1h2tCwvwYwQ8w6VQUFu4Y9Zkue0veaGTJp1cy0Mo=; b=lZTtuJbmTEj3nIoPWQKwGJvMVoX+eUgZt5SFwc/MrLQmJfxuzRUWIPh3wLbP2SZTfr mtZMBxJGh3Mi+uGHtMgdGsclBbzz925xA7mL9vDkMUfl7p22XqpqMEc7OeElqdx/nPMz S6HCUz1HVC+/VADzH2BkkldYC7h8PsFfgpyec= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=SbOauvcYY+sQVLnzZgNc8nvuJQt/xO2Rg616ILnO6WR9vzhOxVjfMh/eIkTkbdtgUy 6mtqie9PitFN18AaXd/2i4MgbH6242T0AsJxiWlFsqmt9tKbjfY7sQ9yKQdgzU0Ru/r1 5zCqc7Bx3/i7er+EyNvsR/jmxSM5fxWLm7VOA= Received: by 10.151.42.20 with SMTP id u20mr2486056ybj.133.1292033556921; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:12:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (adsl-95-128-182.jan.bellsouth.net [98.95.128.182]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g25sm2320266yhc.22.2010.12.10.18.12.35 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:12:36 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D02DE12.60103@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:12:34 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.15) Gecko/20101109 Gentoo/2.0.10 SeaMonkey/2.0.10 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] About to install on a 64 bit system. Advice wanted. References: <4CFFF5DE.20303@gmail.com> <4D00A5ED.3070205@f_philipp.fastmail.net> <1463292034-1291895910-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1043132697-@b3.c1.bise7.blackberry> <201012091552.55851.joost@antarean.org> <4D0109FC.7090605@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 230d3302-806f-4083-9790-d858713deedc X-Archives-Hash: 174b831cf3f89e2171f4800dd069cf84 Alex Alexander wrote: > On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 18:55, Dale wrote: > >> I'm thinking, AT THE MOMENT, of going multilib and grub-static. That way >> down the road, I can switch to no-multilib and not have to reinstall grub. >> To simple huh? >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) >> >> >> > There's absolutely no reason for you not to use multilib. > > Why waste the opportunity to run 32bit applications? You'll never > regret running multilib, infact you'll soon forget it. If, on the > other hand, you choose to run no-multilib, one day you'll have to run > a 32bit app (that day will come, simple Murphy laws) and you'll have > to set up a 32bit chroot for it :) > > Grub is *not* an issue, I've never used grub-static on any amd64 > system, sys-boot/grub works great. Lilo works, yes, but it really is > old tech. Grub's interactive boot menu is invaluable and can save you > when something goes wrong. > > Don't forget that the current multilib implementation doesn't compile > things twice. It just provides the environment and 32bit libraries > required for 32bit applications to build and run. Anything that > supports 64bit builds and runs as 64bit, period :) > > I'm working on installing the GUI part now. I did go multilib for now. This should work better until everything works with 64 bit. I sure would hate to run into a problem with something I have to have and then have to reinstall all this again. I did go with grub-static. Plain grub pulled in something HUGE. This is one less program to have to deal with. Thanks. Dale :-) :-)