Intel iMac + Zod

Peter Gordon peter at thecodergeek.com
Tue Feb 6 23:09:44 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 09:44 +1100, Maung Nanda Linn Aung wrote:
> I recently bought Intel iMac Duo Core 2.16mhz and would love to try
> Zod. I just want a confirmation that whether my Intel iMac belongs to
> i386 family or x86_64?

Core 2 Duos fully support x86-64, so if you don't mind the fact that a
lot of proprietary Linux software is binary-only 32-bit stuff (like
win32codecs, Adobe's Acrobat Reader & Flash stuff, et al.), I'd
recommend using the x86-64 builds. Then again, you can still run 32-bit
stuff on a 64-bit install should the need arise (if you're up for the
pain of multilib...)

I've got x86_64 Fedora (a mix of FC-6 and Rawhide stuff) running just
beautifully on my E6600-based system (DG965WH ATX motherboard). 

Note that depending on the chipset you may need to pass the 'irqpoll',
'all-generic-ide', and/or 'pci=nommconfig' kernel parameters to get it
functioning properly. After a BIOS update, my system only needed
'all-generic-ide', as it autodetected everything else. (IIRC, if you
pass these as boot options to the installer disc, it *should*
automagically write those to the installed bootloader configuration.)

Hope that helps.
-- 
Peter Gordon (codergeek42) / FSF Associate Member #5015
GnuPG Public Key ID: 0xFFC19479 / Fingerprint:
  DD68 A414 56BD 6368 D957 9666 4268 CB7A FFC1 9479
Blog: http://thecodergeek.com/blog/ 
About: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PeterGordon
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/attachments/20070206/fa5ff565/attachment-0002.bin 


More information about the users mailing list