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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