Hi, My wife and I signed up for a class that is taught partially in person and to a great extent on the web. To use the material it's the usual set of requirements - Windows, IE or Firefox, Java, Flash, an audio player that plays stuff on the page, etc., or a Mac. My wife's 32-bit Gentoo machine is working fairly well, although I am having a couple of fairly serious Java problems. (Which I hope can be worked out.) My AMD64 machine, on the other hand, is failing terribly and I really need it to work, somehow...
To this end I'm at the very early stages of a 32-bit install. I'd hate to have to drop back to 32-bit operation on this machine full time, although I'm not actually running anything that has to run 64-bit so maybe it's a non-issue really, other than the work involved to get there. Some questions: 1) If I build and boot a 32-bit version of Gentoo it is my understanding that the AMD64 will be completely 32-bit compatible and that I can run whatever any other IA-32 machine can run. Is this correct? 2) If I build a 32-bit install is there anyway to run this 32-bit environment within the 64-bit environment? I assume not. Thanks in advance. You all have been quite helpful over the last few months and I'm more than sure that you will be now. cheers, Mark -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
