Re: instalation issue

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 2010-03-15 16:47, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Ron Johnson put forth on 3/15/2010 4:11 PM:
>
> > Because of the way that AMD designed the specification, it's possible to
> > install a 64-bit kernel onto a 32-bit system.
>
> You wanna take another stab at that statement Ron?

Nope.

$ uname -m
x86_64

$ file /bin/bash
/bin/bash: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV),
    dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18,
    stripped

$ apt-cache show linux-image-2.6.33-2-amd64 | grep ^Architecture
Architecture: i386


> Methinks you were suffering momentary thought dyslexia. ;)

Nope.  The AMD engineers who designed that architecture had true 
forethought.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

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