Dear all, I want to buy new pc for my home desktop. I plan to buy Intel Pentium 630. My question, Could I install FC4 x86_64 in using this processor? Or only FC4 i386? Are there anyone have experience with this processor?
Xiyan Lon
Xiyan Lon wrote:
Dear all, I want to buy new pc for my home desktop. I plan to buy Intel Pentium 630. My question, Could I install FC4 x86_64 in using this processor? Or only FC4 i386? Are there anyone have experience with this processor?
Xiyan Lon
Sorry, a 630 does not have 64-bit support. It does support hyperthreading so you should run a 686 SMP kernel.
Regards.
John
| From: John Wendel jwendel10@comcast.net
| Xiyan Lon wrote:
| > I want to buy new pc for my home desktop. I plan to buy Intel Pentium | > 630. My question, Could I install FC4 x86_64 in using this processor? Or | > only FC4 i386? Are there anyone have experience with this processor?
I think that you can install FC4 x86_64 on it.
I seem to remember that the RH4 installation is a bit broken in its support of some Intel chipsets (32-bit and 64-bit, I think). Updates fix this, if you can get that far.
The trick/workaround during installation is odd. When you first boot the installation CD (or DVD), you will get a boot prompt. At this point, type "garbage" and hit return (strange but true!). Then, at the next prompt, continue as usual (probably just a return).
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=159026
It is unfortunate that Red Hat / Fedora have not chosen to release an update to fix this six month old installation problem.
| Sorry, a 630 does not have 64-bit support. It does support hyperthreading so | you should run a 686 SMP kernel.
The 630 does have the AMD64/X86_64/EM64T instruction set. See http://processorfinder.intel.com/scripts/details.asp?sSpec=SL7Z9
(None of this is first-hand knowledge -- all my X86_64 processors are AMD.)
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