Linux on an AMD64 box...

[Russell]

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At 10:00 AM 8/21/2006 -0400, you wrote:
>for sled10 x64
>it comes out of the box with flash and mp3
>i copied a 32bit mplayer, and dll's to the 64bit machine
>ran the 32bit mplayer, and it got an error on 2 lib's that i brought
>over from a 32bit suse install,
>and that was that, no chroot, etc, just a fully working suse sled10,
>with a 32 bit mplayer (its dll's) and a could of 32bit libs.
>
>-tl
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>On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 15:12 +0100, Jamon Camisso wrote:
>> Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>> > Yeah it takes like 10 or 15 minutes to do following the howto.  There
>> > are a few tricks for a few programs to deal with, but for most things it
>> > works fine.
>> > 
>> > I actually run 32bit debian on an amd64, with a 64bit kernel, and then
>> > 64bit debian in a chroot.
>> 
>> So how do you have that working? You install a 32bit version and then 
>> simply compile and/or copy your 64bit kernel and associated /lib/kernel 
>> folder to your 32bit install? I'm interested as I do find that even 
>> using dchroot and various other methods of running 32bit programs on 
>> 64bit kernels, there are some quirky little things, like missing gtk 
>> libraries etc. for, say Firefox, that I don't want to have to track down 
>> and install...
>> 
>> Jamon
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