Re: DDQOTD (Dumb Distro Question of the Day) Does Fedora 10 install as a 64 bit OS when it senses 64 bit hardware?

2009-04-28 Thread Alex Hewitt
Alex Hewitt wrote: Jarod Wilson wrote: Alex Hewitt wrote: Just an update - the system that I was trying to install various 64 bit Linux distros also wouldn't install Vista 64. Turns out the processor I was using has some kind of TLB bug (AMD Phenom X4 9600). Oh,

Re: DDQOTD (Dumb Distro Question of the Day) Does Fedora 10 install as a 64 bit OS when it senses 64 bit hardware?

2009-04-27 Thread Alex Hewitt
Ben Scott wrote: On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Alex Hewitt hewitt_t...@comcast.net wrote: Linux hostname.localdomain 2.6.27.5.117.fc10.i686.PAE #1 SMP Tue Nov 18 12:08:10 EST 2008 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux The i386 indicates the running kernel is for the i386 architecture.

DDQOTD (Dumb Distro Question of the Day) Does Fedora 10 install as a 64 bit OS when it senses 64 bit hardware?

2009-04-23 Thread Alex Hewitt
I have a copy of Fedora 10 that came inside a Linux Format magazine. I installed it on a new system with 8 gb of RAM and a quad core AMD CPU. When I issue the free command I see all 8 gb of RAM. Does that mean that the distro installed itself as a 64 bit version? If so, is there an easy way to

Re: DDQOTD (Dumb Distro Question of the Day) Does Fedora 10 install as a 64 bit OS when it senses 64 bit hardware?

2009-04-23 Thread Ted Roche
Alex Hewitt wrote: I have a copy of Fedora 10 that came inside a Linux Format magazine. I installed it on a new system with 8 gb of RAM and a quad core AMD CPU. When I issue the free command I see all 8 gb of RAM. Does that mean that the distro installed itself as a 64 bit version? If so,

Re: DDQOTD (Dumb Distro Question of the Day) Does Fedora 10 install as a 64 bit OS when it senses 64 bit hardware?

2009-04-23 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Alex Hewitt hewitt_t...@comcast.net wrote: Linux hostname.localdomain 2.6.27.5.117.fc10.i686.PAE #1 SMP Tue Nov 18 12:08:10 EST 2008 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux The i386 indicates the running kernel is for the i386 architecture. In other words, 32-bit. A