using 32 bit FC4 on x86_64

Bob Chiodini rchiodin at bellsouth.net
Wed Mar 22 17:48:28 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 16:48 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 March 2006 16:19, Vicki Stanfield wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 03:49:02PM +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > > I have had nothing but trouble trying to get things to work using
> > > > Fedora Core (all three test versions of 5 and 4) on my x86_64 box. I
> > > > think I remember a friend telling me that he had similar problems and
> > > > loaded the 32 bit FC4 and had fewer problems. Are there hazards that I
> > > > need to know of when considering this?
> > >
> > > I'm running FC4 32-bit on a 64-bit motherboard, and have had no issues
> > > whatsoever.
> > >
> > > Anne
> >
> > Thenks. And now for the stupid follow up question: do I simply use 32 bit
> > apps after installing? 
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > [And incidently, does uname show this as a 32 bit 
> > machine afterwards?]
> >
> uname -a
> Linux david.mydomain.lan 2.6.15-1.1833_FC4 #1 Wed Mar 1 23:41:37 EST 2006 i686 
> athlon i386 GNU/Linux
> 
> (Never noticed before, but there's something odd about that system time, I 
> think!  It looks to me to be 12 hours wrong.)
> 
> Anne


Anne,

This time:  23:41:37 EST 2006?

I think that is the build time of the OS.

Bob...




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