On 2010-03-15 16:47, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Ron Johnson put forth on 3/15/2010 4:11 PM:
Because of the way that AMD designed the specification, it's possible to
install a 64-bit kernel onto a 32-bit system.
You wanna take another stab at that statement Ron?
Nope.
$ uname -m
x86_64
$ file /bin/bash
/bin/bash: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV),
dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18,
stripped
$ apt-cache show linux-image-2.6.33-2-amd64 | grep ^Architecture
Architecture: i386
Methinks you were suffering momentary thought dyslexia. ;)
Nope. The AMD engineers who designed that architecture had true
forethought.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
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us arms." Mike Ditka
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