Re: perspectives on 32 bit vs 64 bit
Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> writes:
> On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 02:04:43AM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote:
>> One option is to run a 64 system with a 32 bit chroot. I think there
>> should be no problem with this. However, I was wondering if people has any
>> idea whether it was possible to use the regular /home from inside the
>> chroot. Also, is it possible to have X forwarding working from inside the
>> chroot (assuming one is logging into the regular system)?
>
> Yes and yes. You can use a bind mount to make /home available in the
> chroot. X works if you keep $DISPLAY and have access to
> $HOME/.Xauthority. If you use dchroot, then the "-d" switch keeps the
> environment and X just works.
The amd64 FAQ has lots about this.
>> One more question is whether there is any problem sharing a home directory
>> between a 32 and 64 bit Debian system on an amd64 (assuming one is
>> dual-booting)? I'm just talking about ascii here, I know that binaries
>> would need to be recompiled.
>
> No, that is fine.
Except when it isn't. Gnome and kde apps seem to have problems when
you use the 32bit binary with 64bit files or vice versa. But they
frequently have problems using an older versions file too so this
isn't overly unexpected.
> Hamish
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