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In most cases this isn't possable since the install will not find a kernel on the 32-bit disk for the 64-bit processor. for an AMD Athlon-64 in theory a 32-bit kernel should still run but I'm guessing that SuSE, or any other Distro for that matter, won't compile a 32-bit kernel to work on a Athlon-64 since it makes much more sense to compile a 64-bit kernel. Mind you I'm no expert on compiling kernels and it may be that it does just take a simple recompile and not a whole different kernel structure to work on a 64-bit system, but eather way the 32-bit SuSE disks do not have a kernel for a 64-bit chip on them so the installer will most likely freeze up while trying to read your system hardware and you won't be able to install. I ran into this issue while trying to trouble shoot a friends Athlon-64 system a few weeks ago using a SuSe live-eval disk. It took me a moment, after wondering why it wouldn't get past the system check part of the boot process, to figure out that the live-eval disks don't have a 64-bit kernel on them.
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