Posted by neofpo on Wed 16 May 2007 at 10:09
Since I bought my first amd64 system, I have been developing a solution to make the best of the new amd64 and the old x86 architectures work together. There are many documentation out there, but most are incomplete or obscure.
The whole solution I found for my Debian systems is described in an article at my site:
http://ornellas.apanela.com/dokuwiki/pub:multiarch
It can be applied on both workstation (to run Firefox with Flash, Skype or whatever you need) and server.
The solution is not simple, but will give you two simultaneous working systems, one for each architecture. This means you will have no pain trying to find that missing x86 library in order to run a x86 software on your amd64 installation. Just aptitude it inside the x86 system.
Have fun!
This article can be found online at the Debian Administration website at the following bookmarkable URL:
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