i386/amd64 co-exist

Gary W. Swearingen garys at opusnet.com
Sat Sep 10 14:42:56 PDT 2005


Sean <rsh.lists at comcast.net> 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.


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