Re: 32 bit bigotry running under 64 bit 2.6.6?
"Chris Horn" <chris@beefstew.net> writes:
> So, my new hardware (Asus SK8V + Opteron) came and is installed. The
> machine is running, thanks to the DFS AMD64 kernel. My old custom 32 bit
> 2.4.22 kernel wouldn't boot, so I booted from the DFS CD and used the
> mount-the-system-disks, chroot and dpkg-repack trick to get the new AMD64
> one installed.
>
> As expected, though, I can't compile anything for 64 bits (everything in
> userland is 32; there is no /lib64 directory). For me, this was the
> nVidia X drivers. After some thought, though, I've decided this is okay.
>
> For the time being, I'm going to sit out 64 bits just run everything in
> 32. Sure it won't be 20% faster, but I don't really want to use Mandrake
> or SuSE and Debian doesn't seem ready enough for me to run a multiarch (or
> biarch) setup.
>
> My question is this:
> I'm trying to recompile a custom 2.6.6 kernel, but the configurator won't
> let me choose anything but a 64 bit kernel! What's going on!?! Since my
> 2.4.22 one won't boot, how am I supposed to build a kernel that will just
> mope around in 32 bits until Debian biarch gets on its feet? Do I need to
> install a pre-packaged K7 kernel, or something?
>
> Thanks.
> Chris Horn.
You have to to use the linux32 package.
MfG
Goswin
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