Running 32bit OS on a 64 bit system
 

Hi guys,

I recently bought an AMD 64bit and notice that the flash player (macromedia) doesn't work plus some other w32codecs.
From an extensive search on internet I didn't find any way to install them apart from running them via a chroot environment which I don't want anyway.

In case that I will install the Debian Sarge 32bit distribution and recompile a kernel for 64 bit am I going to benefit its performance or it's no point?

Thanks a lot

You can just run a 32-bit browser and stuff and keep your 64-bit OS.

Hi spooon,

Can you please post how I can do that. Do I need just to download firefox source and configure with i386 option?

Thanks

Or run the installer from the Mozilla website. (I don't know much about Debian, but can you manually install a package for a different architecture? If so, you might be able to just install the 32-bit package.)