RE: Compiling 32-bit Debian Kernel on a 64-bit Debian OS on a 64-bit machine
Thank you for your response!
> You could set up a chroot-ed 32 bits Debian on your 64 bit machine and
> compile Debian inside.
Apologize for being ignorant but will I be to do "make xconfig" in the chroot environment or will I have to rely on the "make menuconfig"?
Kushal Koolwal
I do blog at http://blogs.koolwal.net/
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> Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 09:07:08 +0100
> From: basile@starynkevitch.net
> To: kushalkoolwal@hotmail.com
> CC: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Compiling 32-bit Debian Kernel on a 64-bit Debian OS on a 64-bit machine
>
> Kushal Koolwal wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am running Debian Lenny (64-bit) on my new AMD X2 64-bit Dual Core processor. I would like to compile a 32-bit Debian kernel for my Intel Mobile processor machine. How can I do that? I usually compile Debian kernel 'the Debian way' i.e. using make-kpkg.
>
> You could set up a chroot-ed 32 bits Debian on your 64 bit machine and
> compile Debian inside. For example, I use schroot with the following in
> /etc/schroot/schroot.conf
>
>
> [lenny32]
> description=Debian Lenny 32bits
> location=/Lenny32
> priority=2
> users=basile
> groups=basile,adm
> root-groups=adm,basile
> aliases=default
> personality=linux32
>
> The personality line is important. This uses the personality syscall so
> that in the schroot-ed lenny32 the uname call gives the illusion of a 32
> bits machine.
>
> Happy New Year 2009.
>
> Regards.
>
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