Re: dual boot different platforms from the same partitions in a host
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 01:25:00PM +0100, Tom Vajzovic wrote:
> Hi
>
> I would like to dual boot Linux i386 and amd64.
>
> My amd64 processor will run either quite happily, but not at the same
> time.
>
> I think perhaps that I need separate /usr partitions, and I hope that
> at least /home could be shared, and maybe /etc and /var as well.
>
> The reason to do this is that I sometimes want to run binary only
> libraries and apps that are 32 bit, but the rest of the time I want to
> use the full 64.
>
I don't think anything except /home can be shared. amd64 has 64-bit
programs in /usr and i386 has programs by the same name in the same
place. /etc is different.
Did you know that there are 32-bit libs available to run most 32-bit
apps under amd64?
Perhaps you should tell us what you really want to do under amd64 that
you can't at the moment.
Doug.
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