On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 12:32:20PM -0400, Whit Hansell wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:37:54PM -0400, Whit Hansell wrote: > >> Why is it you need specific to amd64, since amd64 will boot and run >> i386?
> Want the amd64 'cuz I'm running an amd64 chip. Had put in a 32 bit > INSERT disk and it was very limited as to what it could do. So figure > that I'm gonna' need a rescue disk more specific to the processor in > this case. > > And after I had purchased this hardware, 64 bit AMD chip/mobo, tried to > fire up a hard drive w. 32 bit on it and it didn't like what it saw so > went full bore 64 Debian Lenny/stable. And it has been a true > experience setting it all up compared to the previous setups I've done. > Learned a lot the hard way. 8=) Trial and error and RTFM'ing as much > as possible. Since the ability to run i386 (though without access to the full memory addressing of amd64) is built-in to the amd64 hardware, if you have a 386 rescue disk that doesn't work with the hardware, it just means that its not new enough. I ran grml 0.9 i386 just fine on my amd64. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
