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Gavin Seddon <gavin.m.seddon@×××××××××××××.uk> posted |
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1153306577.4247.7.camel@××××××××××××.homenetwork, excerpted below, on |
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Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:56:17 +0100: |
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> Is it poss. to start a 32bit session so the whole desktop is 32bit? |
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If you've installed a complete 32-bit chroot installation, with everything |
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you want to run, on a different partition so you can select it with root= |
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on the kernel command line, and if it has been configured sufficiently to |
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boot independently (with the appropriate 32-bit kernel, modules, daemons, |
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and /etc files such as fstab fully configured), yes. |
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Basically, it's effectively a fully independent multi-boot system, where |
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the one boot option happens to be an x86 32-bit Gentoo that's also |
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configured as a 32-bit chroot to your 64-bit amd64 Gentoo. The multi-boot |
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side of it could just as easily be MSWormOS or Fedora or Ubunto or FreeBSD |
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or whatever, but then of course it wouldn't work as a 32-bit chroot of |
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your Gentoo amd64 boot. |
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There's also an experimental and still-broken 32-bit userland profile, I |
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believe, which would be a 64-bit kernel with 32-bit everything else (don't |
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know how the toolchain would work, as a cross-compile or as a 64-bit |
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multilib, but all regular apps would be 32-bit anyway). However, I'd not |
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suggest that except for the EXTREMELY adventurous, those already running |
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~arch and a whole host of masked packages, and thinking that's far too |
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stable and troublefree for their liking, as it will easily make |
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~arch+masked look like a walk in the park. |
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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 |
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