On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 08:48:53PM +0200, Leonie Herzberg wrote:

> I was going to install an ix86  system on a hdd connected to my x86_64 computer via usb, in order to use it in a 32 bit computer afterwards.
> Pas de problème, one might think.
> So I downloaded an iso named SL-61-i386-2011-07-27-Install-DVD.iso. 
> Anyway, the boot loader shows a kernel name ending with *x86_64. (In a whim, I tried editing the kernel name, changing the x86_64 part to i386, which of course did not work ;-)
> I do not know whether this is just a spelling mistake or if it indeed boots a 64 bit system, which would be kind of a big fail. 
> I hope it is just a spelling mistake, I think I will not find out, but nevertheless, maybe someone could have a quick look at it.

FWIW:
I succesfully installed 32-bit SL on a 64-bit architeture many times
(just because these systems are dedicated to run a specific piece of
32-bit SW).

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