Re: [arch-general] Change installation from 64-bit to 32-bit

2014-07-15 Thread Friedrich Strohmaier
Hi Scott, *, thanks for Your very quick answer, and all the others for their answers as well. Am 11.07.2014 01:42 schrieb Scott Lawrence: > Hey, > Never tried that particular piece of reckless foolery :). [..] > The wiki has a couple other methods, if you don't have 15G to spare: > https://wik

Re: [arch-general] Change installation from 64-bit to 32-bit

2014-07-11 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Thursday 10 Jul 2014 19:42:39 Scott Lawrence wrote: > Hey, > > Never tried that particular piece of reckless foolery :). However, I'd guess > that once the libraries were replaced with incompatible versions, the > installation scripts would start to fail, and then you'd be pretty badly > stuck.

Re: [arch-general] Change installation from 64-bit to 32-bit

2014-07-11 Thread Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 1:31 AM, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote: > Hi all, > > I installed 64-bit arch on a low memory laptop (1G) not thinking about the > higher memory requirement. > > Now I wonder, whether I can approach to change it by changing the pacman.conf > entry > > Architecture = auto > to

Re: [arch-general] Change installation from 64-bit to 32-bit

2014-07-11 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Thursday 10 Jul 2014 22:10:28 droe6 wrote: > Not even that. You can have functioning 32bit programs running on a 64bit > system. The only reason I can see to change is if you somehow installed a > 64bit system on a 32 bit architecture system. The OP already explained that he wants to make thi

Re: [arch-general] Change installation from 64-bit to 32-bit

2014-07-10 Thread droe6
Not even that. You can have functioning 32bit programs running on a 64bit system. The only reason I can see to change is if you somehow installed a 64bit system on a 32 bit architecture system. On Jul 10, 2014 10:07 PM, "Bigby James" wrote: > On 07/11, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote: > > Hi all, > >

Re: [arch-general] Change installation from 64-bit to 32-bit

2014-07-10 Thread Bigby James
On 07/11, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote: > Hi all, > > I installed 64-bit arch on a low memory laptop (1G) not thinking about the > higher memory requirement. > > Now I wonder, whether I can approach to change it by changing the pacman.conf > entry > > Architecture = auto > to > Architecture = i686

Re: [arch-general] Change installation from 64-bit to 32-bit

2014-07-10 Thread Scott Lawrence
Hey, Never tried that particular piece of reckless foolery :). However, I'd guess that once the libraries were replaced with incompatible versions, the installation scripts would start to fail, and then you'd be pretty badly stuck. Instead (but this requires a lot of disk space), perhaps ins

[arch-general] Change installation from 64-bit to 32-bit

2014-07-10 Thread Friedrich Strohmaier
Hi all, I installed 64-bit arch on a low memory laptop (1G) not thinking about the higher memory requirement. Now I wonder, whether I can approach to change it by changing the pacman.conf entry Architecture = auto to Architecture = i686 and reinstall all explicitly installed packages. I feel l