On Wednesday 18 Feb 2009, Ajitabh Pandey wrote: > Hi, > > I recently purchased a Compaq Presario V3700 (Core 2 Duo T8100, 4GB, > 160GB, 14.3 inch, Camera, DVD RW). It came with 32-bit Vista Home > Premium SP1 preloaded. I have installed OpenSuSE 11.1 on it, which > of-course is 32-bit (that's the only DVD I had on my hands). I have > following queries and it will be helpful if you all can share your > experiences and views on these:
Even though the cpu may be 64 bit, ensure that the sytem BIOS allows install of 64 bit OS. I had to update the system BIOS on a D945GCLF board to before it would let me install 64bit openSUSE 11.1. With the original BIOS, I kept getting kernel panic even in "safe mode" > (1.) What is the disadvantage if I run a 64-bit distro on this > system. I want to be able to run firefox, flash, youtube all kinds of > multimedia and other apps. IIRC, you can run 32bit FF and it's associated 32bit plugins (flash, acroread etc.) > (2.) Since this CPU is VT enabled, I want to be able to run some VMs > for testing, perhaps using KVM or Xen. Can I create a 64-bit VM on > 32-bit OS. Not sure if this is possible. > (3.) What is the comparison of virtualisation tools in OpenSuSe, > Fedora and Debian/Ubuntu I use openSUSE 11.1 - VirtualBox, OSE v2.0.6 (?) is included in the DVD. You can always download custom package for all the major distros from VritualBox site. Xen is also included in openSUSE. > (4.) SuSE has loaded Grub on /dev/sda3 (which is extended partition) > and make it active. So now if I want to get rid of Linux completely I > can just use fdisk and switch the active partition to /dev/sda1 and > Vista will start booting. Any idea if Fedora 10, Ubuntu or Debian can > be made to do the similar thing. I think they all change the MBR so > its not easy to remove grub just in case I want to remove that. By "active" do you mean bootable? Use cfdisk and mark the relevant partition bootable. HTH -- Arun Khan -- Arun Khan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list linux-india-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
