On 02/17/2012 04:01 PM, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
At MIT, we mostly use Fedora. It seems to work, horror stories
notwithstanding. Just don't ask for support.
There are also tools like schroot that can help with running old
distros inside a modern distro.
Thank you, Andy. I didn't know about schroot and it seems very powerful:
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/man5/schroot.conf.5.html
If I got it right then you can in a 32-bit environment on a 64-bit machine,
or an old release, or a different distribution as long as you have the
other
kernels and the file systems to support those kernels.
I'll ask my sys admin to research this.
Tom
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