From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G3Aj3-0007q2-8f for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:00:25 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6JBw8PY031745; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:58:08 GMT Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6JBw83I001342 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:58:08 GMT Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1G3Age-00061E-5G for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:57:56 +0200 Received: from ip68-230-97-209.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.230.97.209]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:57:56 +0200 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-230-97-209.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:57:56 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org From: "Duncan" <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: 32bit session Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:57:46 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <1153306577.4247.7.camel@linuxstation.homenetwork> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-230-97-209.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: pan 0.103 (Eldarfaroth) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 750e4aee-0e72-4252-9c71-e0acd2ea70f9 X-Archives-Hash: a8dc56d05ab9e0baec5a695587893d5f Gavin Seddon 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. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list