On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 01:09:20PM -0700, Brian D. Haymore wrote: > Are others seeing any issues with being able to get systemimager to > install 64bit linux x86_64 distributions? I have seen reports of devfs on > a 2.4 kernel for x86_64 being a known bug and in later versions if you > enable x86_64 it forces devfs to be disabled. We have had a 2.6 kernel > tested to try to use that as part of the pxe boot to allow devfs to work > again but it seems devfs is depreciated in the 2.6 kernel in favor of a > new variant. I'm really just after finding if anyone has been able to > install a x86_64 distribution via system imager to compare notes with. > Thanks in advance.
You should be able to use the i386 kernel during installation. You don't
need all that 64bit goodness to install Linux, and it won't affect how the
distro works.
-Sean
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