On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Brian St. Pierre <br...@bstpierre.org>wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Benjamin Scott <dragonh...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio <k...@jots.org> wrote: > >> Hmmm... might be worth looking into. I mean, what's the worst that > >> happens? I bork my system, and wind up doing a re-install. Which is > what > >> I'm looking at, anyway. So, yeah -- I'll poke around and see what I can > >> make happen. > > > > I have an idea I've been turning over in my head which may be > > applicable here, too: Set up another installation in a directory > > branch. In your case, maybe under "/usr/ubuntu-i386/" or something > > like that. > > > > The reason I want to do this is so I can get certain things from > > Debian "unstable" to install (with all their library dependencies) > > without having to run my entire system on unstable.[1] > > > > One way to do this would be to bootstrap an installation in a VM or > > a chroot, but that's a bit heavy-handed. > And clumsy :-( FWIW, VirtualBox can do a 64bit VM on top of a 32bit host. I think VMware workstation can also. But, clumsy..... > > I used to maintain a 32-bit install inside of my 64-bit install > (debian) with schroot and instructions similar to these: > > http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/566 > > https://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html#id292281 > > I needed it to be able to use a couple of binary-only packages that > were only available as 32-bit. > > That could be useful. I run pyTivo to provide a video store for my tivos. It will transcode using ffmpeg to the mpg2 format tivo uses. Right now, it's 64 bits and maybe it would be better in 32 bits.
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