On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 08:12 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:55:57AM +0100, michael wrote: > > > > On 16 Apr 2008, at 02:37, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:32:26PM -0500, Sam Leon wrote: > >>> Could one easily upgrade to an amd64 system just by formating /, > >>> reinstalling with the proper arch, and then reinstalling all the apps > >>> that were installed and hopefully all the conf files in /home/user > >>> will > >>> be compatible with the arch change of kde and other apps? (of course > >>> I > >>> am only talking about if you have /home and a separate partition) > >> > >> Only formatting / will only work if you don't have a separte /usr or > >> /var... > >> > >> I run amd64 Etch and have an i386 chroot for iceweasel with flash. > >> Prior to that I had i386 Sarge on a different box. The configs in / > >> home > >> worked just fine. I always migrate /etc by hand when I do a new > >> install. > >> > > > > I presume you have iceweasel in an i386 chroot since there's no working > > flash for the 64 bit? This is something I am thinking of doing. I am > > starting from amd64 Etch (no other Debian on the system). Do I really > > need to install a full i386 Etch as implied by the Debian manual > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tips.en.html#s-chroot > > or is there a quicker/shorter way (that wastes less disk space)? > > when I migrated to amd64, I did nothing special for flash, and it > seems to just work... (Now I'm thinking I need to go check). In > theory, in sid, you use nsplugin-wrapper to allow 32bit flash to run > on 64bit systems.
what about running Java apps? I thought nsplugin-wrapper didn't support that? but generally, I'm eager to learn how to do a small chroot for iceweasel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
