On Monday 13 Feb 2006 18:08, Christopher Stone wrote: > I guess what I need is a way to boot back and forth between a 32bit > and 64 bit kernel/system. Is there a way to install a 32bit version > of Fedora under a chroot environment or something? > > On 2/13/06, Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Once upon a time, Christopher Stone <chris.stone@xxxxxxxxx> said: > > > What is the easiest way to install and run a 32 bit kernel on an > > > x86_64 fedora core 4 install? Using either a 32bit kernel from > > > kernel.org or a prebuilt Fedora kernel would work. > > > > Do you mean you have an x86_64 with a 64 bit OS installed, and now you > > want to use the 32 bit kernel? If so, you can't, because the 32 bit > > kernel wouldn't know how to run any of the installed 64 bit binaries > > (important things like init and bash). > > > > If you just mean you want to use the 32 bit OS on an x86_64, then all > > you have to do is install the i386 OS instead of the x86_64 OS. It will > > work just fine (it'll just be 32 bit only). > > -- > > Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services > > I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list AFAIK (and I have never done this myself, but I have seen a similar setup working) it would simply be a matter of splitting out a fresh partition from your HDD(s), and installing FC4 32bit completely into that partition. Providing there were no binaries/programs shared between the two OSes, neither OS would interfere with each other (similar to Win/Linux dual boot). In theory you could share the /home partitions, but no user should install their own programs into their $HOME, and a program downloaded and complied by a user into their $HOME whilst running on the 64bit OS would crash on the 32bit OS (probably). So you'd have to be strict to make sure only data goes into the users $HOME. (For example, I have FlightGear installed in my home partition - no-one else here likes flightsims - but thats compiled 32bit, and would crash under a 64 bit system. ) The big question I want to ask is why? Is there a particular reason you need/want both? Is there another solution to your problem? Tony
