Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Live 11.0

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:24:28 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>> > So if you were installing a system, just to run wine, would it
>> > be multilib or hybrid (64 and 32 bit) ?
>
> There's no such thing as a hybrid system. Multilib is what you need to
> run 32 bit software.
>
>> 1) Wine is 32-bit
>> 2) Walter had a 64-bit only system
>> 3) Walter had 2 choices:
>>
>> a) Wipe the system and start over making it a multi-lib system
>> b) Create a 32-bit chroot
>
> Actually, he set up a 32-bit VM, in which case he may have been able to do
>
> c) Install Windows in the VM.
>
>
> --
> Neil Bothwick

OK, that's a different reading of his words. You are likely correct,
and that's identical to what I do using VMWare to run 32-bit XP or
Virtualbox to run 64-bit Win 7. No reason for VMWare other than it's
the one I started with. I've found over the last year I prefer
Virtualbox.

Cheers,
Mark