Le mercredi 02 juillet 2008 à 16:43 +0200, Dieter Rohlfing a écrit : > Hello everybody, > > when I got my new Dell Latitude D830 (1 GB RAM, Intel Core 2 Duo T7250) a few > months ago, I installed the 32-bit version of Debian-Lenny (kernel and > userland > i386-architecture). > > A few weeks ago I upgraded the laptop with 3 GB RAM, so now it has a total of > 4 > GB RAM. Under the i386 kernel the command free shows about 3.5 GB available > memory, so I lost about 0.5 GB RAM due to the i386 architecture. > > Therefore I installed the amd64 kernel, which is part of the i386 > distribution. > Now free shows 4048 MB available memory. So, now I have a completely i386 > userland and an amd64 kernel. > > In order to build a customized new amd64 kernel I guess, I'll need some 64-bit > libraries for the building process, because as I said: my system is (with the > exception of the kernel) completey i386, that is it has only 32-bit libraries. > Now my questions: > > Is it possible, to build an amd64 kernel inside an i386 system (with 32-bit > libraries)? If yes, what additional packages do I have to install? Are they > available inside the i386 distribution or do I have to download those from the > amd64 distribution? > > I appreciate all hints and replies.
When I need to do this, I do use a i386 chroot which I run with the linux32 command. This is probably the safest solution. But it requires setting up a full chroot with the full build suite for kernels. Hope it helps. > Dieter -- Jérôme Warnier FLOSS Consultant http://beeznest.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
