chroot setups

[Felix Sheldon]

Russell Cook wrote:

> Hi all,
> I'm currently running a 386 architecture but am thinking of trying the 
> amd64 now hoary's out. I read the developer wiki about chroot and I 
> understand (or think I do) that this would enable me to run i386 
> specific apps and libs in their own "environment".
>
> If I do this can I boot in amd64 mode and setup the chroot to point to 
> my already isntalled i386 root partition (mounted in somewhere like 
> /var/chroot for example) or do I need to do an install in the chroot 
> itself? I'd like the latter option obviously as it saves disk space 
> and I don't need to maintain/update 3 environments :-).
>
> Does anyone have any experience with this?
>
I used the debootstrap install to run some 32-bit games (Wolf-ET, Q3 
etc) and it seemed to work well. It even ran some windows games with 
Cedega. I mostly followed this guide: 
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=24575

Using an existing install is possible, but I didn't have any luck with it.


Felix