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 1Q0GRQ-0005YH-0I for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:52:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 37EA01C012; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:51:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB1CF1C012 for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:51:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyf23 with SMTP id 23so4012831wyf.40 for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:51:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=z2/IAGIZwh+q575332p7GoJ+x2XtV57Y5C+sfXcG8cE=; b=cBaFEQZWfh3eWGXI8mSAhf8YrNtJxP4MsiYyg1K+mwf7/gj+Abwuf1BH2UN26VaZ8n A3OdjGYu60p3UnoBY/Qfijg3+4WIR4tZSo+Q8lJINWMK6DTjKMsogCeLzAackXnVkAXu BBwUtAQTclwF0hhxsWjwbJllY5fjp9LME0Z4w= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=vSdWvbxCuri2yGE8Hyr6eRsPL/SuIOZ9RKBOSsIJEIGBDhiXxKE/6v8oXKanb+sUYG Y4TKIsd5kTFbBfw154u+9Nl4EKsOxScKa9yf6KLlQ1ChyrZ/+c4/EdKCA9p7aZAdEIA7 qCDrCydOqn3PjxGl3H44DoNHP8nyx8qvsSKMg= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.135.230 with SMTP id u80mr1071294wei.114.1300380674347; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:51:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.175.20 with HTTP; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:51:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110317163727.178b6331@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> References: <20110315154021.670c13ae@digimed.co.uk> <20110316233644.GA26551@waltdnes.org> <20110317163727.178b6331@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:51:14 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Live 11.0 From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: Neil Bothwick Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 1fab5e94e3612ed7702a8227c7e4940c On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Neil Bothwick 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