Hi there,
today I’ve got a new laptop for my job, it has an AMD 64 Turion. I need to have a dual boot, linux+windows, naturally.
Now I have a dummy question… %| I know I can run 32 bit apps with this CPU, but… what about the kernel?? can I install, i.e., an ubuntu 32 bits and eventually recompile the kernel to support the 64 bits?
Just use a 64bit install disc. DL the 64 bit iso. It’s that easy.
I’m sure ubuntu 64-bit supports 32-bit apps. You can recompile the apps for 64-bit though, if you have the source for the programs and the necessary devel packages.
A word of warning though.
Running a 64bit linux can be on the time consuming side, as there aren’t as wide a range of prebuilt packages for 64bit linux as there are for 32bit linux.
If you just want an easy to use linux, then install a 32bit linux. If you want to spend a bit more time tweaking / compiling software from source, then 64bit linux.
Out of interest I do run 64bit linux (Ubuntu), although there are times I do curse 64bits! (lack of software at times / needing to compile stuff from source etc)
I don’t think you could install 32bit ubuntu, and then recompile the kernel for 64bit. Well, possibly you could, but there would be no 64bit library files etc?
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Brian
if you are dual booting you could use windows for all 32 bit stuff if you can’t get/compile 64 packages.
You can install unbuntu 32bit and then upgrade it to 64bit at a later date, read the ubuntu forums for info /advice…
If i remember there were a couple of complication with it.
ok, thank you all. at the moment I’ve installed Fedora 5 64bit, just because we had that one in office. let see how’ll it go.