i386 / x86_64 mixup
Bob Chiodini
rchiodin at bellsouth.net
Tue Feb 13 18:57:54 UTC 2007
Mark Haney wrote:
> William Murray wrote:
>> Oops!
>> I installed FC6 i386 on a new box: Dell OptiPlex 745 with core 2 duo
>> em64T CPU.
>> It should have been x86_64. Is it worth changing? Can I
>> 'upgrade' or
>> do I need to do a new clean install?
>> Thanks guys!
>> Bill
>> Ps I have / and /home is separate partitions - if I do a clean install
>> can I just throw away the / partition and keep /home?
>
> You're better off re-installing. I don't think upgrade is an option
> that way, and even if it was, I wouldn't trust it.
>
> And yeah if /home is a separate partition, make sure the installer
> doesn't try to format it.
>
>
Bill,
I don't think the 64 bit system is worth some of the hassles. Like
firefox plugins, mplayer libraries, Java. I think OpenOffice is still
32 bit.
From a strictly look and feel I did not notice a difference between a
32 bit and 64 bit desktop environment. Maybe on the server side.
There was a thread a couple of weeks ago discussing this.
Bob...
Bob...
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