Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: VMware Player on Gentoo question
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 09:21:56
Message-Id: pan.2006.03.12.09.19.49.405720@cox.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: VMware Player on Gentoo question by Antoine Martin
1 Antoine Martin posted <1142129346.11048.1.camel@localhost>, excerpted
2 below, on Sun, 12 Mar 2006 02:09:06 +0000:
3
4 >> What would I need to do to get the 32-bit area to build a 32-bit
5 >> kernel? When I run make menuconfig and try to change the processor I'm
6 >> only given 2 64-bit options.
7 > Have you tried:
8 > make ARCH=i386 menuconfig
9 > make ARCH=i386
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11 This was news to me -- I hadn't tried that.
12
13 What I would have done if I were creating a 32-bit chroot I intended to
14 boot, would be start from a 32-bit liveCD and do the entire Gentoo install
15 as if I were on a 32-bit machine installing Gentoo in its own partitions
16 along with some other OS -- that the other OS was Gentoo for amd64
17 wouldn't matter, as the two would be entirely separate installs -- only
18 from the 64-bit install some of the 32-bit could be mounted as a 32-bit
19 chroot.
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21 I had always wondered how one got a 32-bit kernel config from a 64-bit
22 system, without starting from a 32-bit system already. Assuming this is
23 correct, very cool, my wondering answered! =8^)
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27 "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
28 and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in
29 http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html
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