[rhn-users] Re: 32bit vs 64bit

[Jesse]

Adrian, 

If you have a Red Hat Network subscription. Downloading the latest version 
of RHEL wont be a problem.
1. Log into the RHN
2. Click "Channels"
3. Choose "Easy ISOS" from the right hand navigation menu
4. Click RHEL V.4 for 64 bit AMD64/Intel EM64T
5. Download the images one of your workstations with a CD burner.
6. Burn the images to a CD
7. Boot the the install CD and follow the directions. 

If you registered your current v 3 system, you'll have to "delete" the 
system from the RHN before enabling/registering your new v4 install. It's 
really a snap. 

Regarding your CPU question... More is always better! 

Hope that helped. 

Kind regards, 


Jesse Fitzgerald
jesse at nursingnet.com 

Adrian Marsh writes: 

> Guys and Gals, 
> 
> Merry xmas! 
> 
> Maybe someone can advise me... 
> 
> We've purchased a Dell server (1cpu) intending to migrate a development 
> environment from a 32-bit environment (desktop PC) Linux to a server-class 
> machine. 
> 
> We've bought RedHat Linux 3 ES, EM64T, FI, but when I try to install some 
> of our development packages (eg picotool) rpm complains about missing 
> libraries. OS was all pre-installed by Dell. 
> 
> Everything I've read-up on, on rhn, says that the 64-bit version should be 
> backward compatible to 32-bit. But I can't see why it's complaining. 
> 
> Our developers have been talking to Pico, who recommend we only run a 
> 32-bit environment - but this doesn't sound right to me..  If I went down 
> the route of a re-install, where would I get hold of the 32-bit of ES ?  
> (would it be built into the original CDs shipped?) 
> 
> Another idea we've had was to purchase VMWare, and run multiple 32-bit 
> "development servers" off of the 64-bit host.  But If I go that route, 
> then the following additional questions arise: 
> 
> 1) - Would our current license cover us for multiple copies of ES? (32bit 
> + host 64?)
> 2) - What sort of spec machine is practical?  I imagine I'd need to move 
> to 2CPU, and more than 256Mb of memory. 
> 
> Below are the errors I get from rpm: 
> 
> Thanks in advance.. 
> 
> Adrian. 
> 
>> [root at ubiq-serv2 rpm]# rpm -ivh 
>> picoTools-6.1.2_linux_redhat_enterprise3.0-1.i586.rpm
>> error: Failed dependencies:
>>         libX11.so.6 is needed by 
>> picoTools-6.1.2_linux_redhat_enterprise3.0-1
>>         libXext.so.6 is needed by 
>> picoTools-6.1.2_linux_redhat_enterprise3.0-1
>>         libXi.so.6 is needed by 
>> picoTools-6.1.2_linux_redhat_enterprise3.0-1
>>         libexpat.so.0 is needed by 
>> picoTools-6.1.2_linux_redhat_enterprise3.0-1
>>         libfontconfig.so.1 is needed by 
>> picoTools-6.1.2_linux_redhat_enterprise3.0-1
>>         libfreetype.so.6 is needed by 
>> picoTools-6.1.2_linux_redhat_enterprise3.0-1
>>         libgdk-1.2.so.0 is needed by 
>> picoTools-6.1.2_linux_redhat_enterprise3.0-1
>>         libgtk-1.2.so.0 is needed by 
>> picoTools-6.1.2_linux_redhat_enterprise3.0-1
>>         libjpeg.so.62 is needed by 
>> picoTools-6.1.2_linux_redhat_enterprise3.0-1
>>         libpng12.so.0 is needed by 
>> picoTools-6.1.2_linux_redhat_enterprise3.0-1
>>         libstdc++.so.5 is needed by 
>> picoTools-6.1.2_linux_redhat_enterprise3.0-1
>>         libstdc++.so.5(CXXABI_1.2) is needed by 
>> picoTools-6.1.2_linux_redhat_enterprise3.0-1
>>         libstdc++.so.5(GLIBCPP_3.2) is needed by 
>> picoTools-6.1.2_linux_redhat_enterprise3.0-1
>>         libtcl8.3.so is needed by 
>> picoTools-6.1.2_linux_redhat_enterprise3.0-1
>>         libtk8.3.so is needed by 
>> picoTools-6.1.2_linux_redhat_enterprise3.0-1
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