[gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: VMware Player on Gentoo question

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Antoine Martin posted <1142129346.11048.1.camel@localhost>, excerpted
below,  on Sun, 12 Mar 2006 02:09:06 +0000:

>> What would I need to do to get the 32-bit area to build a 32-bit
>> kernel? When I run make menuconfig and try to change the processor I'm
>> only given 2 64-bit options.
> Have you tried:
> make ARCH=i386 menuconfig
> make ARCH=i386

This was news to me -- I hadn't tried that.

What I would have done if I were creating a 32-bit chroot I intended to
boot, would be start from a 32-bit liveCD and do the entire Gentoo install
as if I were on a 32-bit machine installing Gentoo in its own partitions
along with some other OS -- that the other OS was Gentoo for amd64
wouldn't matter, as the two would be entirely separate installs -- only
from the 64-bit install some of the 32-bit could be mounted as a 32-bit
chroot.

I had always wondered how one got a 32-bit kernel config from a 64-bit
system, without starting from a 32-bit system already.  Assuming this is
correct, very cool, my wondering answered! =8^)

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