Upgrading From Intel x86 To Athlon 64

[Robert L Cochran]

On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 19:46 -0700, alan wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Robert L Cochran wrote:
> 
> > I'm almost ready to attempt booting my new Athlon 64 3500+ system. This
> > is on an MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum motherboard. I've been using Fedora Core
> > 2 (x86 version) on my old Intel system and want to move it onto the new
> > motherboard and upgrade to Fedora Core 2 (x86_64 version). Has anyone
> > done this? Will it work?
> 
> Can you do this? Maybe.
> 
> Should you do this? No.
> 
> Build the system on a new drive with a version built for the AMD64 and 
> then move data over as needed.  Otherwise you will not get thefull 
> benifits of the AMD64.  (If it will work at all.  Memtest86 reboots 
> continually on my AMD64 laptop.)
> 
> > The motherboard has 4 SATA connectors, and I'm thinking of getting an
> > PATA-to-SATA adapter and using the SATA1 connector for the Fedora Core
> > drive. Will using SATA cause problems at installation time? 
> 
> Depends on the chipset.
> 
> http://linux.yyz.us/sata/sata-status.html has status of various 
> sata chipsets.
> 
> You may also run into some interesting problems with Yum updates.  The 
> AMD64 version will install both i386 packages and x86_64 (i.e. AMD64) 
> packages.  This causes yum (and other package managers) to become 
> "confused".  Hopefully this will get resolved soon.  up2date handles it 
> better, but still gets confused at times.
> 
> 
Thanks for the link -- I'm using the NForce3 Ultra chipset. I need a bit
more hardware then I can boot for the first time. I do have an extra
PATA drive so I'll take your advice and install x86_64 from scratch.

Bob
 
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