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"John A. Goebel" <[log in to unmask]>
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John A. Goebel
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Mon, 31 Oct 2005 11:24:39 -0800
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++ 31/10/05 10:37 -0800 - <Stephen J. Gowdy>:
> Actually I tell a lie... we have Opterons... they are not the same, are
> they?
 
Nope.

We didn't get any Athlon 64 systems, just Opteron.

John
 
> On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Miles O'Neal wrote:
> 
> > Mark Nelson said...
> >
> > |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?
> >
> > We didn't do extensive testing, but I once
> > installed SL304 32 bit on a dual Opteron
> > system, and it ran fine for a day or so.
> > I only realized the problem when I went to
> > install a 64 bit RPM and the delependency
> > checker went berserk. 8^/
> >
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