Noah Roberts <roberts.noah@email-addr-hidden> writes:
>> > 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.
>
> Minor correction:
>
> You can't run 64 bit executables in a 32 bit environment. The kernel
> must be running in 64 bit mode.
Yeah, but you can use a 64-bit kernel to boot a 32-bit base system and then
use a 64-bit chroot... But usually, you do it the other way round.
-- CYa, MarioReceived on Tue Mar 22 04:15:39 2005
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