F11-Beta-x86_64-Live-KDE.iso = F11-Beta-i686-Live-KDE.iso ?

Thomas Janssen thomasj at fedoraproject.org
Fri Apr 3 08:31:03 UTC 2009


But to answer your question. That needs a new ticket in:
https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/newticket

Needs the rel-eng people to respin it and the mirroring folks to push it.

I have a ticket ready, needs just a click to send. If you want to do
it, tell me and i cancel it ;)

2009/4/3 Scott Beamer <geekboy at angrykeyboarder.com>:
> Not long after the release announcement I downloaded F11-Beta-x86_64-Live-
> KDE.iso, burned the image to a CD and installed to my hard drive.
>
> After rebooting I noticed that I in fact was not running X86_64 but i686.
>
> Unfortunately I didn't notice till I'd started adding a number of
> packages and noticed they were all i5/686.
>
> A "umame -r" after that showed in fact I was not running x86_64.
>
> I'm not sure what happened there but rather than risk wasting bandwidth
> downloading what seemed to be incorrectly labeled images again I then
> downloaded the boot.iso for rawhide x86_64.
>
> To make a long story short, I did end up with what I expected this time
> around X86_64 and not i686.
>
> I had then intended to immediately check this and the devel lists as well
> as buzilla to see if anyone else had a similar experience but got
> sidetracked till now.
>
> >From what I can find there are no bug reports relating to this and nobody
> else has mentioned having the same experience here.
>
> To make sure I wasn't crazy, I downloaded F11-Beta-x86_64-Live-KDE.iso
> again (It was done about an hour before I wrote what you are now
> reading), but this time from a different mirror.
>
> After booting up the Live CD I did a "uname -r" again and alas, no X86_64.
>
> If I'm interpreting this correctly F11-Beta-x86_64-Live-KDE.iso is
> mislabeled both in terms of the name of the disk as well as the name that
> appears at the top of the GRUB menu when you first start this disk up.
>
> Is this a bug or a feature?  If it's the former, what do I file the bug
> report against?
>
> Thanks
>
>   Scott
> Now running 2.6.29.1-37.rc1.fc11.x86_64
>
>
>
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