Re: Won't install 64-bit version

"Lamont R. Peterson" <lamont@xxxxxxxxxxxx> · Fri, 10 Feb 2006 08:39:29 -0700

On Friday 10 February 2006 06:25am, Michael Miles wrote:
> I have a brand new multiprocessor AMD Opteron system and I purchased a copy
> of RH Enterprise Linux Workstation v4 which is supposed to support AMD64
> processors.   It does install on the system, but it is definitely not
> 64-bit and when I try to compile a x86_64 kernel on this system it won't
> compile apparently because all the libraries including gcc are 32-bit.

Sounds like you installed using the 32-bit (i386) CDs/DVD.

> Does RedHat have a 64-bit version of RHEL that they just don't show as
> purchaseable on their web-site?

Absolutely.  But, the 32-bit (i386) and 64-bit (x86_64) CD are separate.  Did 
you download ISOs and burn your own CDs?  You should have downloaded ISOs for 
x86_64.  Both are available via RHN [ https://rhn.redhat.com/ ] if you have 
an entitlement (a.k.a. RHN subscription).

If you had a box set of discs shipped to you, then there are both i386 and 
x86_64 CDs (4 for i386 and 5 for x86_64, IIRC) in the box, 1 DVD for each 
(with the SRPMS on the back side of the DVDs, which you do not need to 
install unless you need to recompile any packages) and a Documentation CD, as 
well.

> Thanks for any information that you can provide and let me know if anyone
> needs more information, I tried to keep it simple.

HTH
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