installing 32b debian on unused partition

2005-01-26 Thread Ric Otte
Hi, When I installed debian on my amd64 I didn't expect things to work very well, and so I made an extra 10g partition in which I could install a 32 bit kernel to use while I got pure64 working. Surprisingly, the pure64 install went very easily and everything works (more things work than did on

Re: installing 32b debian on unused partition

2005-01-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ric Otte [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, When I installed debian on my amd64 I didn't expect things to work very well, and so I made an extra 10g partition in which I could install a 32 bit kernel to use while I got pure64 working. Surprisingly, the pure64 install went very easily and

Re: installing 32b debian on unused partition

2005-01-26 Thread Alex Perry
Ric Otte wrote: $ mkdir /mnt/debinst $ mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/debinst I recommend making a directory /chroots in both installations. Each contains one softlink and one directory. The former points up two directories to the root, and the latter is a mountpoint for the root filesystem

Re: installing 32b debian on unused partition

2005-01-26 Thread Richard Otte
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 08:50:17PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Hi, a small bit of advice: If you've never done this before you might be better of just using the installer. It's quite a bit from a chroot to a fully bootable 32bit system and you probably need many reboots to tryerror