Dear Duncan, thanks. This appears a mission. I will have to reinst. Gentoo and create a 32 partition. Can you recommend a url of howto proceed thence. Gavin.
On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 11:57 +0000, Duncan wrote: > Gavin Seddon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on > Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:56:17 +0100: > > > Is it poss. to start a 32bit session so the whole desktop is 32bit? > > If you've installed a complete 32-bit chroot installation, with everything > you want to run, on a different partition so you can select it with root= > on the kernel command line, and if it has been configured sufficiently to > boot independently (with the appropriate 32-bit kernel, modules, daemons, > and /etc files such as fstab fully configured), yes. > > Basically, it's effectively a fully independent multi-boot system, where > the one boot option happens to be an x86 32-bit Gentoo that's also > configured as a 32-bit chroot to your 64-bit amd64 Gentoo. The multi-boot > side of it could just as easily be MSWormOS or Fedora or Ubunto or FreeBSD > or whatever, but then of course it wouldn't work as a 32-bit chroot of > your Gentoo amd64 boot. > > There's also an experimental and still-broken 32-bit userland profile, I > believe, which would be a 64-bit kernel with 32-bit everything else (don't > know how the toolchain would work, as a cross-compile or as a 64-bit > multilib, but all regular apps would be 32-bit anyway). However, I'd not > suggest that except for the EXTREMELY adventurous, those already running > ~arch and a whole host of masked packages, and thinking that's far too > stable and troublefree for their liking, as it will easily make > ~arch+masked look like a walk in the park. > > > -- > Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. > "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- > and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman > -- Dr Gavin Seddon Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road M13 9PL UK -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
