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On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 08:39 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> My wife and I signed up for a class that is taught partially in |
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> person and to a great extent on the web. To use the material it's the |
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> usual set of requirements - Windows, IE or Firefox, Java, Flash, an |
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> audio player that plays stuff on the page, etc., or a Mac. My wife's |
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> 32-bit Gentoo machine is working fairly well, although I am having a |
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> couple of fairly serious Java problems. (Which I hope can be worked |
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> out.) My AMD64 machine, on the other hand, is failing terribly and I |
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> really need it to work, somehow... |
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> To this end I'm at the very early stages of a 32-bit install. I'd |
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> hate to have to drop back to 32-bit operation on this machine full |
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> time, although I'm not actually running anything that has to run |
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> 64-bit so maybe it's a non-issue really, other than the work involved |
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> to get there. |
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> |
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> Some questions: |
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> 1) If I build and boot a 32-bit version of Gentoo it is my |
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> understanding that the AMD64 will be completely 32-bit compatible and |
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> that I can run whatever any other IA-32 machine can run. Is this |
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> correct? |
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Correct. |
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> 2) If I build a 32-bit install is there anyway to run this 32-bit |
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> environment within the 64-bit environment? I assume not. |
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Sure, no problem. You would chroot to the running directory, and then |
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run programs. You want to mount /proc in the chroot first. |
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The issues with java, flash, and mplayerplug-in are not fun. |
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Unfortunately, java is currently 64-bit only, and flash is currently |
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32-bit only, so you can't use them in the same browser. mplayerplug-in |
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could be either, but currently is neither (at least with support for |
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mplayer-bin). Loads of fun. |
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Daniel |