Re: instalation issue

2010-03-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-16 05:34, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:12:40 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-03-15 10:14, Camaleón wrote: [snip] Today there are a few (none?) issues at all. Although there are still some counted applications that require a 32 bits OS to work. Counted? I meant "a sm

Re: instalation issue

2010-03-16 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:12:40 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-15 10:14, Camaleón wrote: > [snip] >> >> Today there are a few (none?) issues at all. Although there are still >> some counted applications that require a 32 bits OS to work. >> >> > Counted? I meant "a small number" of softw

Re: instalation issue

2010-03-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-15 18:54, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Ron Johnson put forth on 3/15/2010 5:07 PM: On 2010-03-15 16:47, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Ron Johnson put forth on 3/15/2010 4:11 PM: Because of the way that AMD designed the specification, it's possible to install a 64-bit kernel onto a 32-bit system. Y

Re: instalation issue

2010-03-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Ron Johnson put forth on 3/15/2010 5:07 PM: > On 2010-03-15 16:47, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Ron Johnson put forth on 3/15/2010 4:11 PM: >> >>> Because of the way that AMD designed the specification, it's possible to >>> install a 64-bit kernel onto a 32-bit system. >> >> You wanna take another stab

Re: instalation issue

2010-03-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-15 16:47, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Ron Johnson put forth on 3/15/2010 4:11 PM: Because of the way that AMD designed the specification, it's possible to install a 64-bit kernel onto a 32-bit system. You wanna take another stab at that statement Ron? Nope. $ uname -m x86_64 $ file /b

Re: instalation issue

2010-03-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Ron Johnson put forth on 3/15/2010 4:11 PM: > Because of the way that AMD designed the specification, it's possible to > install a 64-bit kernel onto a 32-bit system. You wanna take another stab at that statement Ron? Methinks you were suffering momentary thought dyslexia. ;) -- Stan -- To

Re: instalation issue

2010-03-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-15 10:14, Camaleón wrote: [snip] Today there are a few (none?) issues at all. Although there are still some counted applications that require a 32 bits OS to work. Counted? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us a

Re: instalation issue

2010-03-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-15 09:44, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: I am not an expert on this; but if it's a 64-bit processor, you probably want amd64 unless it's an Itanium, in which case you want ia64. Look through the literature to see if your processor has EM64T support. If it does, you want amd64. See http://w

Re: instalation issue

2010-03-15 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:44:54 -0400, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > I am currently running i386 with 8gb of RAM using the -bigmem kernel. As > I understand, each process becomes limited by 3GB or so of RAM. With a PAE enabled kernel, you (applications) can bypass that limit by using memory mapping (m

Re: instalation issue

2010-03-15 Thread Odd
Stephen Powell wrote: On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:52:24 -0400 (EDT), Germana Oliveira wrote: If i have an HP with an Intel Centrino, 64bit, should i dowload the iso for amd64 or 32?? or amd64 is just for AMD ¿? I am not an expert on this; but if it's a 64-bit processor, you probably want amd64 unle

Re: instalation issue

2010-03-15 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
> I am not an expert on this; but if it's a 64-bit processor, you probably > want amd64 unless it's an Itanium, in which case you want ia64.  Look > through the literature to see if your processor has EM64T support.  If it > does, you want amd64.  See http://www.debian.org/ports/ for more informati

Re: instalation issue

2010-03-15 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:52:24 -0400 (EDT), Germana Oliveira wrote: > If i have an HP with an Intel Centrino, 64bit, should i dowload the iso for > amd64 or 32?? or amd64 is just for AMD ¿? I am not an expert on this; but if it's a 64-bit processor, you probably want amd64 unless it's an Itanium, in

Re: instalation issue

2010-03-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-15 07:52, Germana Oliveira wrote: If i have an HP with an Intel Centrino, 64bit, should i dowload the iso for amd64 or 32?? or amd64 is just for AMD ¿? amd64 encompasses all "PC-style" (like your Centrino) 64-bit chips, whether they are made by AMD or Intel. Thanks!! (to answer t

Re: instalation issue

2010-03-15 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Germana Oliveira wrote: > If i have an HP with an Intel Centrino, 64bit, should i dowload the iso for > amd64 or 32?? or amd64 is just for AMD ¿? > > Thanks!! (to answer this * question) > Most of the time, if you have to ask, you want i386. 64bit Intel CPUs c

instalation issue

2010-03-15 Thread Germana Oliveira
If i have an HP with an Intel Centrino, 64bit, should i dowload the iso for amd64 or 32?? or amd64 is just for AMD ¿? Thanks!! (to answer this * question)