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Old 11-14-2005, 09:09 PM   #1
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x86_64 or not?


This is probably a stupid question, but hear me out, please!

I ordered a 5 CD set of OpenSUSE the other day from one of the "cheap linux CDs" places. I just got it in the mail today (I've been waiting very impatiently, since I really wanted to try out SUSE!) and was heartbroken to see the label: SUSE 10.0 OSS (x86_64). This is bad, you see, because I don't have an AMD64 processor. I'm stuck back in 32 bit land.

Since I had ordered the proper version for my computer (and not the x86_64 version), I thought that it might just be a labelling mistake.

How to tell the difference? I have no idea. I stuck the disc in my drive, looked through all the readmes, checked all the files I could see, but couldn't find anything "64" (except in some of the readmes, which seem to be used for all SUSE versions).

I assumed that a foolproof way to see if these discs were the right ones would be to clear out an extra partition on my drive and try to install it. If it's x86_64, it won't even install or run on my system, right? Keep in mind, I'm a newbie. I am doing lots of assuming here. I believe that a major difference is with drivers, so an x86_64 installation should NOT possibly work on a Duron processor.

Anyway, everything installed well. I'm on the net, listening to a Tom Petty CD (drivers work!), and things all are going very, very smoothly.

Again, not to sound dumb, but this must mean that I got the right discs with the wrong labels, right? If I did have an x86_64 version, I wouldn't have gotten this far, right?

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Old 11-14-2005, 09:15 PM   #2
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If it installed on your hardware, and you have 32bit, it wasn't a 64bit version.

But if you want to be assured of that, check all the packages in yast, they will all be 32bit, not x86_64.

Try downloading some x86_64 rpms and installing them, you will get architecture errors, and they won't install. You will know for sure you are on 32bit.

You could also check the kernel settings, but that might be harder than you want to do.
 
Old 11-14-2005, 11:56 PM   #3
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If you donīt have a AMD64 or Intel processor with EMT64, you wonīt be able to run the OS.
 
Old 11-30-2005, 01:49 AM   #4
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very simple ............


if it does installed successfully on your 32 BIT system

then, it is BIT


other wise..................Labelling is Correct. It is x86_64 Edition

Regards..............
 
Old 11-30-2005, 03:54 PM   #5
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Try open a Konsole then type:

uname -a

What does it tell?


Else, open YaST -> Software management -> Search for: kernel

If you don't have something like these you should be fine:
kernel-default-nongpl-2.6.13-15.x86_64.rpm
kernel-smp-nongpl-2.6.13-15.x86_64.rpm

Your installation should have picked something like:
kernel-default-nongpl-2.6.13-15.i586.rpm
kernel-smp-nongpl-2.6.13-15.i586.rpm
 
  


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