On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Michael Mol <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote:
[snip] >>> Maybe a 32-bit Gentoo chroot that doesn't maintain any desktop or X11, >>> etc. could work? If I could convert the files at the command line >>> using ffmpeg in 32-bit then that would be pretty manageable in terms >>> of Gentoo work, assuming the ffmpeg package can be built as without >>> any GUI stuff? >> >> I was just thinking that. I played with a chroot briefly just before >> inara and kaylee bit it, and it seemed pretty trivial. Were it me, >> that'd be the next thing I'd try. (But then, compiling is cheap for >> me) >> > > I think I'll try it in a Virtualbox VM first I instead of a chroot. > That's pretty easy to deal with. Easy to back up. Easy to move to a > different system down the road. No disk partitions, etc. > > Biggest issue for me is likely to be that I haven't done a 32-bit > install in at least 6 years. No idea what to watch out for but I doubt > it's any big deal. No idea how the 32-bit VM really does 32-bit when > it's running on a 64-bit processor that's doing 64-bit all the time > but I guess that's why we pay these Intel & Oracle people the big > bucks, right? ;-) Actually, it's pretty simple, and works just fine IME. I've run 32-bit processes on 64-bit systems ever since I started using 64-bit Linux a few years ago, and it's unavoidable if one does anything on 64-bit Windows. > > And if I end up needing X in the 32-bit environment for some reason it > will be easy to add that down the road. For that, I imagine I'd use a TCP socket connecting to localhost. To put it simply, X network transparency is simply awesome. Your x server would run in your 64-bit environment, and your client app would run in your 32-bit environment. > > It's a real drag about the hassles your machines have been going > through. I hope you get by that soon. I'm probably going to lose inara to Ubuntu 12.04, unless I get lucky and manage to properly configure a tiny WYSE box I picked up at a computer recycling center. If that works, I'm in good shape. -- :wq
