Re: Advice in switching from Mandriva 64 to Debian 64

2005-11-04 Thread Giacomo Mulas
Hi Helge. On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Helge Hafting wrote: 3) compare the passwd, shadow, group and gshadow files in the 64 and 32 bit sides, make sure to make them as nearly equal as you can. Or make them hardlinks, if they are on the same filesystem. That way, you won't need to maintain these

Re: Advice in switching from Mandriva 64 to Debian 64

2005-11-03 Thread Helge Hafting
Giacomo Mulas wrote: On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Jean-Jacques de Jong wrote: Hi, I am planning to switch to Debian from Mandriva. I have an AMD64 and I would like to exploit the 64 bits for those programs that really need it (video editing/transcoding, photo editing), and still run Firefox with

Re: Advice in switching from Mandriva 64 to Debian 64

2005-10-28 Thread Jaime Ochoa Malagón
I prefer to have the chroot I have 2 kinds of users, the first one works on 64 bits (sid could be sarge/etch), the second works over the chroot (sid but could be sarge/etch)... The trick is to run and configure both kdm (64 y 32 bits) to manage the login for the right user under the right

Re: Advice in switching from Mandriva 64 to Debian 64

2005-10-28 Thread Thomas Steffen
On 10/20/05, Jean-Jacques de Jong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am planning to switch to Debian from Mandriva. I have an AMD64 and I would like to exploit the 64 bits for those programs that really need it (video editing/transcoding, photo editing), and still run Firefox with Flash,

Re: Advice in switching from Mandriva 64 to Debian 64

2005-10-21 Thread jmt
The issue is that the 32 bit applications need to be run by the rest of the family, and I fear a chroot environment would be too complex for them (they just want to click on an icon and it must work). I run Debian AMD64, with kde, and have an icon which, when clicked, run Mozilla in 64, and

Re: Advice in switching from Mandriva 64 to Debian 64

2005-10-21 Thread Giacomo Mulas
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Jean-Jacques de Jong wrote: Hi, I am planning to switch to Debian from Mandriva. I have an AMD64 and I would like to exploit the 64 bits for those programs that really need it (video editing/transcoding, photo editing), and still run Firefox with Flash, OpenOffice, and