jjbenham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jeremiah Benham) writes: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 10:11:48AM -0800, Noah Roberts wrote: >> I have an amd64 running in 64 bit mode. There honestly isn't much >> reason to get a 64 if you are going to run in 32 bit mode...They are >> way more expensive than the 32 bit counterparts and don't offer enough >> extra in 32 bit mode. > > I also considered going to 64 bit. What flavor of linux are you using? I > know you can't run 32 bit and 64 bit applications on the same machine. > That is unless you have both the 32 bit and 64 bit libc installed. That > seems confusing as if you are just asking for trouble. Not really. You usually solve this issue by either creating a 64-bit chroot in a 32-bit base system or a 32-bit chroot in a 64-bit base system. These chroots can be very useful since some apps just don't work in 64-bit mode yet. We are using this method at work to make 32-bit commercial apps run on our 64-bit x84_64 machines, and it works very well. I wouldn't call it confusing. Its actually very logical as soon as you start to grasp the chroot concept. -- CYa, Mario | Debian Developer <URL:http://debian.org/> .''`. | Get my public key via finger mlang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx : :' : | 1024D/7FC1A0854909BCCDBE6C102DDFFC022A6B113E44 `. `' `-
