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Linux for AMD64
Does anyone know of a 64bit version of Linux
that works with the AMD64 CPU? Thanks, Don |
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On Wed, 05 May 2004 11:06:02 -0500, Don McCarter wrote:
Does anyone know of a 64bit version of Linux that works with the AMD64 CPU? Thanks, Don Both SUSE and Mandrake have 64 bit versions. The 64 bit version of Mandrake 10 is in beta, 9.2 is out. |
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In article , Don McCarter wrote:
Does anyone know of a 64bit version of Linux that works with the AMD64 CPU? SUSE has and AMD64, and Mandrake 10 is in public beta / release candidate state. -- Povl H. Pedersen - (yes - it works) Get 5% discount on VMWare use discount/referral code: MRC-POVPED260 |
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Don McCarter wrote:
Does anyone know of a 64bit version of Linux that works with the AMD64 CPU? Thanks, Don There's also Fedora and Gentoo. Mandrake 64bit Official is out of beta, but only available to buy at the moment, no downloads yet. |
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"Don McCarter" wrote in
: Does anyone know of a 64bit version of Linux that works with the AMD64 CPU? Thanks, Don Mandrake 10 x86_64 RC1 works great for me on an A64 3200+ GA-K8TV800. I haven't tried other distros but I did have plenty of problems with the Beta-1 of Mandrake 10 x86_64. RC1 is much better, almost no problems. The only major problem I have with it is it can't read the NTFS formatted Raid-0 SATA drives. It's not the raid-0 nor the SATA that it chokes on, but the combination of it being ntfs and bios raid (as opposed to simple OS striping). I have installed mdk64 (bootable) on the SATA raid-0 themselves in the past so I'm certain the problem involves NTFS here. Linux sees it as 2 empty drives instead of one NTFS formatted drive. My config is: ide0 = XP Pro 64 [80GB] NTFS ide1 = XP Pro 32 [80GB] NTFS ide2 = Mandrake 64 [120GB] ext3 sata0+1 = 240GB [2-120GB with raid-0) NTFS Linux can be tricky to setup if you have both IDE and SATA hard drives, and several operating systems. I don't suggest booting any OS from SATA when you're running both IDE and SATA. It can be done but I've found errors on the sata drives under that configuration so I'd stay away booting SATA if you also have IDE running. One thing I've noticed about mdk64: If you change the amount of ram in your box after mdk is installed, it won't run correctly anymore. That problem doesn't occur with XP64. |
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On Wed, 05 May 2004 11:06:02 -0500, Don McCarter wrote:
Does anyone know of a 64bit version of Linux that works with the AMD64 CPU? Lots of happy customers in the Gentoo forums. The downside of Gentoo is the compile times but with any AMD64 CPU it will fly. K |
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On Wed, 05 May 2004 12:50:05 -0500, goblin wrote:
... Linux can be tricky to setup if you have both IDE and SATA hard drives, and several operating systems. I don't suggest booting any OS from SATA when you're running both IDE and SATA. It can be done but I've found errors on the sata drives under that configuration so I'd stay away booting SATA if you also have IDE running. ... From what I've heard, you'd be better off staying away from SATA entirely. Another Intel technological disaster. |
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Hmmm...can you cite sources please?
Personally though, I'd wait and ensure that SATA is implemented directly on a chipset, and NOT going through the PCI bus. _ wrote in : From what I've heard, you'd be better off staying away from SATA entirely. Another Intel technological disaster. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andy Yee E-Mail: ayee AT mn dot rr dot com President Home Page: http://home.mn.rr.com/andyyee New Directions Engineering, Inc. Godwin's Law: As a USENET thread grows, the probability of a reference to Hitler or Nazis approaches 1.00. Corollary: When such a reference is made, it is generally recognized that the poster has LOST the argument. |
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On Thu, 06 May 2004 16:48:58 +0000, Andy Yee wrote:
Hmmm...can you cite sources please? Personally though, I'd wait and ensure that SATA is implemented directly on a chipset, and NOT going through the PCI bus. It's just arrived, the Nforce 3 250 has integrated SATA. I don't find PCI SATA that much of a problem anyway, my NF2 box has no PCI cards installed and you'd find it hard to transfer 133MB/s. K |
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Various current threads over in blahblahblah.storage newsgroup. Yes many issues hotly debated, but one thing remains the same: never be a first adapter. On Thu, 06 May 2004 16:48:58 GMT, Andy Yee wrote: Hmmm...can you cite sources please? Personally though, I'd wait and ensure that SATA is implemented directly on a chipset, and NOT going through the PCI bus. _ wrote in : From what I've heard, you'd be better off staying away from SATA entirely. Another Intel technological disaster. |
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