Bill Wohler wrote:
I installed the i386 etch distribution on my 64-bit system since the
ia64 distribution had been burned on suspect media and wouldn't boot.
Are you sure you want ia64. Most 64-bit systems these days use the
amd64 port (i.e AMD64 and intel emt64 processors). what have you got.
Questions:
What am I missing out on?
Depends on what you are using it for?
What components are actually different between these two systems? The
stock kernels, for example, don't seem to be different.
Most binaries are recompiled specifically for 64 bit user space. You
can run a 64bit enhanced kernel on i386, look for the -k8 linux-images.
What tells your system which binaries to grab? The sources.list file
doesn't indicate hardware type.
The OS knows what its running:)
Can I transition my system from i386 binaries to ia64 binaries without
starting from scratch?
If you mean amd64, no its a completely different OS but you can install
in to a separate partition using debootstrap, or an install CD and then
dual boot.
HTH
Wackojacko
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