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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
