[arch-general] Change installation from 64-bit to 32-bit

[Paul Gideon Dann]

On Thursday 10 Jul 2014 19:42:39 Scott Lawrence wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> Never tried that particular piece of reckless foolery :). However, I'd guess
> that once the libraries were replaced with incompatible versions, the
> installation scripts would start to fail, and then you'd be pretty badly
> stuck.

I also think this would happen.

> Instead (but this requires a lot of disk space), perhaps install the 64-bit
> versions of all current packages to a chroot, and then do a massive copy?
> You'd have to be sure to get the important parts in one command on the copy,
> otherwise your binaries might start being unusuable. (Or, install busybox
> and use that to do things more carefully.)

Yes, I don't think you'll be able to do this in-place. A chroot is a possibility, possibly onto a 
separate logical volume (if you used LVM?). There's not much difference between doing that 
and reinstalling from scratch, though.

Paul