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?
Baltika