I read a bit of my "questions" put before. WOW, what a MESS!!?!! Is it
possible to understand 5%?
Hardly. Sorry & trying to improve
Gunnar
On Fri, 30 Jul 2021, 07:53 Gunnar Gervin, <dofee...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi beautiful ideals!
> Decided to install Virtual Machine & Docker in this 14 year old ex-Macbook.
> In which I installed Debian "Buster" i386 32 bits. As some of you know, I
> did some failures during installation, the dvd player "hung" a bit several
> times, so I saw it installing at least 3 times. I made a puzzling
> observation: 64 came up a lot of times, but the machine seemed to handle
> it. ("Is it 64 bits anyway?" I wondered.)
> Now I found the following information in Wikipedia:
> " Mac OS X 10.6 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Snow_Leopard> is
> the first version of macOS <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS> that
> supports a 64-bit kernel
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_(computing)>. "
> n Snow Leopard, most built-in applications have been rebuilt to use the
> 64-bit x86-64 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64> architecture
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instruction_set_architecture> (excluding
> iTunes <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes>, Front Row
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_Row_(software)>, Grapher
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapher> and DVD Player
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_Player_(software)> applications).[43]
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Snow_Leopard#cite_note-43> They
> will run in 32-bit <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/32-bit> mode on
> machines with 32-bit processors, and in 64-bit mode on machines with 64-bit
> processors.
> A change to the com.apple.Boot.plist will also enable users with
> compatible computers to permanently boot into 64-bit for those wishing to
> do so.
> After upgrading the kernel from 32b to 64b, if advisable & possible.
> How to do that? Clean reinstall I guess optional, but will that suffice?
> Geg
>
