using 32 bit FC4 on x86_64

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 22 March 2006 16:19, Vicki Stanfield wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 03:49:02PM +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > I have had nothing but trouble trying to get things to work using
> > > Fedora Core (all three test versions of 5 and 4) on my x86_64 box. I
> > > think I remember a friend telling me that he had similar problems and
> > > loaded the 32 bit FC4 and had fewer problems. Are there hazards that I
> > > need to know of when considering this?
> >
> > I'm running FC4 32-bit on a 64-bit motherboard, and have had no issues
> > whatsoever.
> >
> > Anne
>
> Thenks. And now for the stupid follow up question: do I simply use 32 bit
> apps after installing? 

Yes.

> [And incidently, does uname show this as a 32 bit 
> machine afterwards?]
>
uname -a
Linux david.mydomain.lan 2.6.15-1.1833_FC4 #1 Wed Mar 1 23:41:37 EST 2006 i686 
athlon i386 GNU/Linux

(Never noticed before, but there's something odd about that system time, I 
think!  It looks to me to be 12 hours wrong.)

Anne
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