[ale] How do I install 32 bit SuSe 9.3 on a 64 bit system?
James P. Kinney III
jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Tue Oct 11 16:20:15 EDT 2005
Unless you are married to Suse, try the Fedora 64 bit installation. It
worked well over here on multiple systems.
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 16:12 -0400, Cor van Dijk wrote:
> Jim Lynch wrote:
>
> >I've got this new Presario with a 64 bit AMD chip. I installed Debian
> >on it, but never could get X configured. I've always had better luck
> >with SuSe on unusual hardware so I installed 9.3. Unfortunately it
> >installed a 64 bit kernel and other assorted 64 bit programs, but it
> >won't boot. Now I'm trying to go back and install a 32 bit kernel and
> >can't figure out how to tell it to do just that. It insists on
> >installing a 64 bit kernel. I looked in the packages but there isn't a
> >package listed anywhere that suggests it is linux or kernel or whatever.
> >
> >Any suggestions would be welcome. I'm staring at the Yast screen,
> >"Installations settings" right now. I'm booting from a minimal cdrom
> >and doing a network install.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Jim.
> >_
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