installing 64-bit kernel on a 32-bit system

[Patrick Bartek]

--- On Fri, 1/1/10, slamp slamp <slackamp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Has anyone does this in Fedora 12? I
> don't want to re-install the whole system.

What did you do anyway?  If you installed 64-bit F12 on a 32-bit system, it's not going to run even if you do install the 64-bit kernel.  Everything is 64-bit, kernel, apps, utilities, etc.  On a 32-bit system, everything has to be 32-bit.  If that's the case, you're going to have to reinstall.

Now, you can run the 32-bit distro on a 64-bit system, and on a 64-bit install on 64-bit hardware run 32-bit apps concurrently with 64-bit ones, but not the other way around.


B