Re: question about AMD64 HOWTO

[Thomas Steffen <steffen.list.account@gmail.com>]

On 4/21/05, Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk> wrote:
> Grab a Knoppix disk, boot into it and fire up qtparted.  That will
> enable you to shrink your partition and create some new ones.  Then you
> can doa fresh 64bit install and create a new chroot within it.
> Meanwhile you'll still have the old system to fall back on whilst
> configuring the new one.

I agree. If possible, you should create three partitions: one for the
32bit system, one for the 64bit system, and one for home. Then you can
mount them together any way you like. Remember that changing the
partitions may break grub or lilo, so either rerun lilo from the
knoppix CD (which is possible, but a bit fiddly), or have an
alternative boot method handy.

If you want to stick to one partition, you can but the 64bit system in
/ and the 32bit system in a chroot under /emul/i386. You will not be
able to run the 32bit system (at least not in an esay way). And again,
knoppix will be handy for setting this up, because you should not move
system files around while they are being used.

Thomas