Re: Won't install 64-bit version

["Bryan J. Smith" <b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx>]

Michael Miles <mmiles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

Correct, you have the i686 version.  You need the x86-64 version,
which is a _completely_separate_ set of CDs.



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