Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:05:40 -0400 From: "Josh Carroll" <josh.carroll@gmail.com> To: "Christopher Joyner" <chris27wjoyner@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is it possible to run i386 only, on a amd64 freebsd 7? Message-ID: <8cb6106e0808191005i59b137bevd396599a55d4796@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <804778.17202.qm@web56713.mail.re3.yahoo.com> References: <804778.17202.qm@web56713.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
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> O.K I understand that. So I can see that unless I have an i386 FreeBSD build, I really cannot > install those i386 only software titles. > > In that situation I assume I can only use amd64 ports and software. > > I have an idea though, would it be possible to build a i386 FreeBSD on an another partition. And use it to run i386 software while using the amd64 FreeBSD? I tried something similar using an i386 chroot, but wine failed to run (SIGABRT). If you need these i386-only ports/software, you should probably just run the i386 version of FreeBSD. Do you have a compelling reason for using the amd64 release (e.g. > 4GB of RAM)? Josh
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