Re: installing 64-bit kernel on a 32-bit system (nouveau issue?)

2010-01-03 Thread Josh Boyer
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 03:47:19PM +, David Woodhouse wrote: Obviously that doesn't count for the nVidia binary module, which doesn't exist for ppc64. And nouveau is relatively new and not currently being used in Fedora/PPC64 so I'm prepared to believe that their 'work in progress' API still

Re: installing 64-bit kernel on a 32-bit system (nouveau issue?)

2010-01-02 Thread Roberto Ragusa
(warning: added cross posting to fedora-devel) Ramesh.R wrote: You can use 32 bit OS in 64 bit processor. 32 bit address bus will use 64 bit. MSB 32 bits will be idle.. But for the case, 64 bit OS in a 32 bit processor is not possible by theory. No one is talking about that. You are not

Re: installing 64-bit kernel on a 32-bit system (nouveau issue?)

2010-01-02 Thread Roberto Ragusa
(warning: added cross posting to fedora-devel) Ramesh.R wrote: You can use 32 bit OS in 64 bit processor. 32 bit address bus will use 64 bit. MSB 32 bits will be idle.. But for the case, 64 bit OS in a 32 bit processor is not possible by theory. No one is talking about that. You are not

Re: installing 64-bit kernel on a 32-bit system

2010-01-01 Thread Randy Yates
slamp slamp slack...@gmail.com writes: Has anyone does this in Fedora 12? I don't want to re-install the whole system. I don't even think this is possible, and even if it is, my suspicion is you're asking for a lot of trouble. Just make a copy of your installed packages (rpm -qa), your home

Re: installing 64-bit kernel on a 32-bit system

2010-01-01 Thread john wendel
On 01/01/2010 06:24 AM, slamp slamp wrote: Has anyone does this in Fedora 12? I don't want to re-install the whole system. Just for fun, on F11 32-bit system (not tried on F12), I downloaded the latest F11 64-bit kernel package and installed it with rpm --nodeps --ignorearch --force

Re: installing 64-bit kernel on a 32-bit system

2010-01-01 Thread Waleed Harbi
*I think depends on your cpu type. What is your CPU? Intel Core 2 Duo** *--- Best Wishes, Waleed Harbi --- Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 5:24 PM, slamp slamp

Re: installing 64-bit kernel on a 32-bit system

2010-01-01 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Fri, 1/1/10, slamp slamp slack...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone does this in Fedora 12? I don't want to re-install the whole system. What did you do anyway? If you installed 64-bit F12 on a 32-bit system, it's not going to run even if you do install the 64-bit kernel. Everything is

Re: installing 64-bit kernel on a 32-bit system

2010-01-01 Thread Roberto Ragusa
john wendel wrote: Just for fun, on F11 32-bit system (not tried on F12), I downloaded the latest F11 64-bit kernel package and installed it with rpm --nodeps --ignorearch --force kernel package name It installed OK, since the kernel is pretty isolated from the rest of the system

Re: installing 64-bit kernel on a 32-bit system

2010-01-01 Thread Ramesh.R
You can use 32 bit OS in 64 bit processor. 32 bit address bus will use 64 bit. MSB 32 bits will be idle.. But for the case, 64 bit OS in a 32 bit processor is not possible by theory. I did not think that it will work. Also i did not tried this. Any one tried this combination and working fine?