> Read these and they were very informative but didn't answer my basic > question as to whether I can use my existing x86 partition as the > "chroot" system. I kinda get the impression from the howtos that this > might not be the best idea.
It will be a big fat chroot :). You may uninstall unneeded packages. But there is no reason why you shouldn't use your old system for that purpose. My 32bit chroot is nothing else than a running system. rgds Bernhard -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
