Intel iMac + Zod

[Maung Nanda Linn Aung]

Peter,

Thank you so much for the suggestion.
I'll give it a try.


On 2/7/07, Peter Gordon <peter at thecodergeek.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 09:44 +1100, Maung Nanda Linn Aung wrote:
> > I recently bought Intel iMac Duo Core 2.16mhz and would love to try
> > Zod. I just want a confirmation that whether my Intel iMac belongs to
> > i386 family or x86_64?
>
> Core 2 Duos fully support x86-64, so if you don't mind the fact that a
> lot of proprietary Linux software is binary-only 32-bit stuff (like
> win32codecs, Adobe's Acrobat Reader & Flash stuff, et al.), I'd
> recommend using the x86-64 builds. Then again, you can still run 32-bit
> stuff on a 64-bit install should the need arise (if you're up for the
> pain of multilib...)
>
> I've got x86_64 Fedora (a mix of FC-6 and Rawhide stuff) running just
> beautifully on my E6600-based system (DG965WH ATX motherboard).
>
> Note that depending on the chipset you may need to pass the 'irqpoll',
> 'all-generic-ide', and/or 'pci=nommconfig' kernel parameters to get it
> functioning properly. After a BIOS update, my system only needed
> 'all-generic-ide', as it autodetected everything else. (IIRC, if you
> pass these as boot options to the installer disc, it *should*
> automagically write those to the installed bootloader configuration.)
>
> Hope that helps.
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Linn
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