All said in the subject, but nevertheless:
I have problems with my laptop (64bit) and want to chroot into it. I have a 32 bit *installtion* on USB which is ok for fsck on 64bit, but not for chroot. So I need a 64mb ISO dd-ed to a USB stick. But I have available only a 32 bit computer.
In my understanding it shouldn't matter, but I'm not sure ...
Q: why don't you try it?
A: I felt I'd like to ask to have an answer ready when it wouldn't work. But then I tried it, and .. no problem.
And, my compliments to the team, it boots fast as hell, a few seconds, wow. (now I try to repair my installtion)
(What I want to do with the chroot is to rewrite two corrupted files back: librt.so.1 and libutil.so.1 . How do I find out to which packages they belong?)
A: don't use apt-file
Q: why?
A: because for apt-file search <file> to work, it needs a database. So you are asked to run "apt-file update" which does not create a DB from your installed files but downloads the completed db from all repos you've in sources.list(.d)*
Q: How do you know?
A: I did run "apt-file update". But while downloading it I found the package using
https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_contents
