What to install on an amd64 machine?

[Chuck Rice]

At 3:50 PM +0100 12/27/04, Eugen Leitl wrote:
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>On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 03:37:20PM +0100, Alexander Volovics wrote:
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>>  In 2 weeks time I will be getting an amd64 machine and I have
>>  been reading up on possible problems.
>>  Because the answers to the questions I would like answered are
>>  contaminated with hardware/software issues when googling or reading
>>  mailing lists I hope to get some unequivocal answers here.
>>
>>  - Can you install FC3-i386 on an amd64 machine without problems?
>>    Can the FC3-i386 kernel and drivers handel the hardware without
>>    problems?
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>Check out the supported hardware list. My Asus A8V Deluxe doesn't seem to run
>into problems (getting FC3 to boot with a mixed PATA/SATA can be tricky, as
>you have to jiggle drive boot priority in BIOS).

I have the same ASUS A8V Deluxe mobo. The install seems to go fine. 
System seems solid, but when I try to use apt or yum they seem to be 
very broken. Apt does not like the i386 and x86_64 duplicates. Yum 
has trouble with itself because of a prereq of Python24. With enough 
fiddling you can get around it, but for a newbie like me it has been 
a large learning curve. There are patches for yum (see 
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=140832> but I 
have had no success so far. -Chuck-