Re: i386/amd64 co-exist
On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 17:19:15 -0400 Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to be able to setup a system so that on power up I can choose weather to boot into either i386 or amd64. Is this possible or would I some how have to install the two releases on their own? afaik it would have to be a dual-boot with the kernel(s) and programs on separate partitions No matter what I do above I would also like to be able to have a user log in no matter which kernel is up and have their own home directory. I am guessing that if I put /usr/home on its own then that could solve that idea? correct, you can share the /usr/home -- grtjs, albi gpg-key: lynx -dump http://scii.nl/~albi/gpg.asc | gpg --import ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: i386/amd64 co-exist
Someone broke the silence: I would like to be able to setup a system so that on power up I can choose weather to boot into either i386 or amd64. Is this possible or would I some how have to install the two releases on their own? No matter what I do above I would also like to be able to have a user log in no matter which kernel is up and have their own home directory. I am guessing that if I put /usr/home on its own then that could solve that idea? Anyone doing anything like this or know of a site to point me at for some information? Thanks Sean Ask yourself this question. I would like to be able to set up a vehicle that I can choose wheather to use v4 motor or v8 motor. That's so when I toss a car key to this kid, he will only use the vehicle with V4 motor enabled. When I take this same car key, I want to use a vehicle with a V8. Can both V4 and V8 co-exist in a single vehicle? Kernel is similar to a motor in a PC. What's bad is that you also re-compile every binary (make buildworld and make makekernel) to be supported with amd64 optimizations to make it a amd64 system. You would have to do the same if you want it to be an i386 system. You can't flip back and forth between a different architecture to another architecture based on only the kernel swapping as you can do with a car if you swap the motors back and forth (with huge amount of physical work). Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: i386/amd64 co-exist
Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to be able to setup a system so that on power up I can choose weather to boot into either i386 or amd64. Is this possible or would I some how have to install the two releases on their own? I'm fairly sure it could be done, but you'd have to have pairs of most system and program directories and do a bunch of unusual (AKA untested) configurations and have some custom boot scripts and it would likely be more trouble than it's worth. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: i386/amd64 co-exist
On 2005-09-10 17:29, Haulmark, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone broke the silence: I would like to be able to setup a system so that on power up I can choose weather to boot into either i386 or amd64. Is this possible or would I some how have to install the two releases on their own? Ask yourself this question. I would like to be able to set up a vehicle that I can choose wheather to use v4 motor or v8 motor. That's so when I toss a car key to this kid, he will only use the vehicle with V4 motor enabled. When I take this same car key, I want to use a vehicle with a V8. Can both V4 and V8 co-exist in a single vehicle? Flawed analogy, if you ask me. Sure you can do what the original poster asked. Solaris 10 does this already in their Core OS distribution, and with a bit of effort you can probably share the same i386 /, /var and /usr filesystem between 2 kernels running from different /boot subdirectories, but you will only be able to use i386 binaries this way (since the amd64 cpus can run i386 binaries too). Booting with two different root partitions and a common /home is ok too, but configuration changes in (say) /etc and other places will have to be synced manually between the two. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
