Re: Running a ia32 system on debian amd64 system

[Kumar Appaiah <a.kumar@alumni.iitm.ac.in>]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:10:47AM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
>   I am trying to run a debian ia32 system on my running debian amd64.
> I thought I could follow instructions from:
> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianAMD64Faq
> -> http://users.alioth.debian.org/~intero-guest/debian-amd64-howto.html
> -> http://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html
> 
> Which -according to another debian chanel- is deprecated and has been
> replaced by newer (better?) documentation.

I would create a 32 bit chroot to avoid the trouble of running any
32-bit programs with 32-bit libraries on my amd64 machine as is. See
this for a sample tutorial:

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=18001

Of course, this would involve creating a (much smaller) duplicate
installation. But then, it's easier to maintain (in my opinion) two
separate chroots, rather than a single amd64 installation with the
requirement of installing some 32-bit libraries as well...

HTH.

Kumar
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Kumar Appaiah