[ale] How do I install 32 bit SuSe 9.3 on a 64 bit system?

[Dow Hurst]

Jim,
You should bother for the better graphics, especially if you have Nvidia 
graphics.  What type of graphics came in the Presario?  Is it ATI, 
Intel, or Nvidia?  If you have ACPI issues such as not being able to 
shutdown by software command or if suspend to disk won't work correctly, 
then there are some ACPI fixes in newer kernels that might help.  
Several HP laptops were affected by some changes in the ACPI code so 
9.3's default kernel may or may not work for you.  I am running SUSE 
10.1 with a special ACPI fixed kernel from the main suse ftp repository 
posted by Thomas Renninger.  He is a SUSE employee and works on ACPI 
related issuse for Novell/Suse.  This fix is for some systems that under 
the normal 2.6.13 kernel would not turn off after the shutdown command 
finished.  You'd have to press and hold the power button to get the 
system to shutdown.  Look on the GaTech suse repository for the people 
section for trenn.  Your initial install problems lead me to think you 
have a basic underlying ACPI issue.
Dow

Jim Lynch wrote:
>Thanks for all the tips.  I really don't want 64 bit.  It's too new and 
>I'm not really using this for anything that needs 64 bits.  In fact, 
>since I write software for 32 bit systems, it would be more trouble to 
>do it on a 64 bit platform.  I did find that one of the initial menus 
>has a pretty well hidden menu at the bottom that say "F6 64Bit"  I hit 
>F6 and sure enough I had a menu option to set it to 32 bits.  2 hours 
>later I have a running SuSe 9.3 laptop.  X looks crappy, but it's at 
>least displaying something unlike Debian.  It will do for now until I 
>can crank up sax and see if I can get it to do a bit more.  I've see a 
>few comments on the web about drivers for this thing for accelerated 2 
>and 3 D displays, but unless that's the only way to get better 
>resolution, I'll not bother. 
>
>Thanks,
>Jim.
>
>Jim Lynch wrote:
>
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>>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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