Share partitions between Arch i686 and Arch 64

raskolnikov · 2006-09-04 09:20:55

As I have a new shiny Turion 64 laptop, I want to setup a dual boot Arch32/Arch64

So, I wonder :
:arrow: can the swap partition be shared between the two ?
:arrow: can the /home partition be shared without problem (I think of config files stored here : same versions of software ? no known binary-only files ?)
:arrow: what about /boot (same filenames ( = two partitions) ?)
:arrow: I have a local mirror : i686 takes ~4GB, how many for Arch64 ? (I plan to use testing, current and extra repos)
:arrow: any other caveat I didn't think of ?

I'm planning something like this :

hda1   ext2       /boot   (32)      128M
hda2   ext2       /boot   (64)      128M
hda3   swap               (32+64)     1G
hda5   ext3       /       (32)       12G
hda6   ext3       /       (64)       12G
hda7   reiserfs   /var    (32)        4G
hda8   reiserfs   /var    (64)        4G
hda9   ext3       /home   (32+64)     ~

jrepan · 2006-09-04 11:52:17

Swap can be shared. I shared swap on Arch64 and Ubuntu i386

syamajala · 2006-09-04 12:17:33

/boot and /home can also be shared easily.

gs · 2006-09-04 14:23:53

I share /home between two arch64 and one arch32 installations.

Interesting things sometimes happen. For example, firefox and thunderbird settings are the same (always). I think some misunderstandings happen when setting files indicate the presence of an additional and supplemental application (in another installation), when it is not -- in fact -- installed in the present installation.

These things do not bug me much, however. You may ask why do I have two arch64's. Well, the newer one is a spare against the contingency of beeping up the first, perhaps when the new xorg comes out of testing.

Geoff

raskolnikov · 2006-09-04 16:03:07

Thanks for your help I'll install with my setup when packages will be synced, so.

dolby · 2006-09-04 17:13:15

sorry for hijacking this thread but i got a new pc & im about to install arch64 on it. what are the differences between em? i read some stuff here mostly conserning some codecs. can anyone sum the differences up?

rephrasing: would arch64 stand as the only os?

gs · 2006-09-05 10:08:51

sorry for hijacking this thread but i got a new pc & im about to install arch64 on it. what are the differences between em? i read some stuff here mostly conserning some codecs. can anyone sum the differences up?

Have a look here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch64_FAQ

The forum contains a lot of in-depth info, also. Arch64 (or any other linux64) is not really for the faint-hearted, because there is inevitably techno-stuff involved. What I mean is that you can't just install and expect everything to be easy. The main points of interest for folks is that it is fa--->st and that it utilises the processor capabilities. There are, however, gaps.

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Returning to running two arch64's, I have found that amarok gets seriously beeped. This is maybe because of its kde-based settings. Anyhow, I deleted ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok; and just let it sort itself out on starting up again.

Firefox crashes sometimes, too.

dolby · 2006-09-05 11:54:08

thx for the reply.i had already read the wiki tbh.

when talking about some win32 codecs, were talking for mp3 and avi (the most common ones) or m4a and rm for example which are not widely used? or it just happens randomly? "mine plays mp3 but yours doesnt" kinda thing?

iBertus · 2006-09-05 14:33:37

dolby wrote:

thx for the reply.i had already read the wiki tbh.
when talking about some win32 codecs, were talking for mp3 and avi (the most common ones) or m4a and rm for example which are not widely used? or it just happens randomly? "mine plays mp3 but yours doesnt" kinda thing?

This is talking about things like WMV and RealMedia or QuickTime codecs. These will be required to get mplayer to play these non-free formats and currently you cannot do this with Arch64. The solution is to setup a 32-bit partition and run the apps from Arch64 via chroot.

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#1 2006-09-04 09:20:55

Share partitions between Arch i686 and Arch 64

#2 2006-09-04 11:52:17

Re: Share partitions between Arch i686 and Arch 64

#3 2006-09-04 12:17:33

Re: Share partitions between Arch i686 and Arch 64

#4 2006-09-04 14:23:53

Re: Share partitions between Arch i686 and Arch 64

#5 2006-09-04 16:03:07

Re: Share partitions between Arch i686 and Arch 64

#6 2006-09-04 17:13:15

Re: Share partitions between Arch i686 and Arch 64

#7 2006-09-05 10:08:51

Re: Share partitions between Arch i686 and Arch 64

#8 2006-09-05 11:54:08

Re: Share partitions between Arch i686 and Arch 64

#9 2006-09-05 14:33:37

Re: Share partitions between Arch i686 and Arch 64

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