On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 08:39 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > 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?
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. Sure, no problem. You would chroot to the running directory, and then run programs. You want to mount /proc in the chroot first. The issues with java, flash, and mplayerplug-in are not fun. Unfortunately, java is currently 64-bit only, and flash is currently 32-bit only, so you can't use them in the same browser. mplayerplug-in could be either, but currently is neither (at least with support for mplayer-bin). Loads of fun. Daniel
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