Ubuntu... downgrade? (64-bit -> 32-bit)

[Tom Buskey]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Brian St. Pierre <brian at bstpierre.org>wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Benjamin Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio <ken at 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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