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Barry.SCHWARTZ posted <20060425224319.GB15042@××××××××××××.org>, excerpted |
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below, on Tue, 25 Apr 2006 17:43:19 -0500: |
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> Brandon Edens <brandon@××××××.edu> wrote: |
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>> Gentoo neophytes shouldn't have to deal with the headaches AMD64 |
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>> sometimes brings. If the users are high-performance computing types |
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>> well... I wasn't attempting to pressure him into using AMD64. Only |
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>> to further elucidate the situation. Hoping that further education on |
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>> the issue would aid in making decisions. |
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> Anyway an installation of x86 gentoo can be turned into a 32-bit |
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> chroot later, perhaps even without abandoning the ability to boot |
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> 32-bit. |
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Very good point! =8^) |
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I've thought that if I were to do a 32-bit chroot, the difference between |
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a directly bootable chroot and one that only works as a chroot is only a |
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few packages, so I'd probably make it directly bootable just on principle. |
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I hadn't made the connection between that and this discussion, however, so |
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you get major points here for making it. It's not as all-or-nothing as I |
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was thinking, because when the time comes, that 32-bit install easily |
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becomes a 32-bit chroot, saving having to setup one from scratch. |
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Of course, folks like me would then want to rearrange the partitions a |
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bit, but given today's 200 gig plus hard drives, copying a few partitions |
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around is easier than setting up a new installation from stage-X. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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