Mark, we had problems with the SL4 x86_64 freezing up during install -- 
looked like a video problem(?), so I fell back on the 32-bit version and 
all is well so far.  Has anyone had this experience before?

Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 03:33:10PM +0000, Mark Nelson wrote:
> 
>>I'm about to purchase a couple of new systems, my supplier can only
>>supply me with a AMD 64 (this is due to a couple of hardware
>>computability issues), can I run the 32 bit version of SL4 on a AMD
>>64, I know I'll take a performance hit but I'm not that bothered
>>about that.  Can anyone see any issues?
> 
> 
> As everybody confirmed, there are no issues, AMD64 is designed in such
> a way (that's why you can also use Windows on them ...).
> 
> But why would you want to do so? SL x86_64 has multilib support, so
> any 32 bit application you have in mind should work with the 64 bit
> version.