32 vs. 64 bit RHEL3

Gavin McDonald gavitron at gmail.com
Wed Jan 25 19:57:41 UTC 2006


For starters, the uname output tells me that you're running a 32bit kernel.

As for the question of _CAN_ it support 64, You'll have to find out
what architecture your datacenter has provided.

Regards,

Gavin McDonald
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EVI Logistic Enterprises
email: me at gavitron.com
phone: (604) 313-3845


> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jason Williard
> Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 11:52 AM
> To: 'Redhat General List'
> Subject: 32 vs. 64 bit RHEL3
> 
> I have just leased a new 64 bit server to add to our systems.  The server
> will be acting mainly as a MySQL master server.  I would like to know if
> there is a difference in how Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 ES is installed on
> 64 bit vs. 32 bit.  Mainly, I would like to know if there is an easy way
> to
> identify whether the 64 bit technology is supported by the system.  As it
> is
> leased through a data center, they handle the setup and installation of
> the
> OS software, so I am not quite sure that the server was properly
> configured.
> 
> 
> Here is the output from uname -a
>  Linux host.domain.com 2.4.21-27.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Dec 1 21:59:02 EST 2004
> i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> 
> 
> ----
> Thank You,
> Jason Williard
> 
> 
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