On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 20:07 +0800, Chuanwen Wu wrote: > 2007/10/7, William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi had the smae problem on a dell with this chipset. Its not so much > > the chipset, but that the dell has a gap in the numbering of devices > > attached to it that the livecd cant deal with. > > > > The cure was to boot from a redhat 7 livecd and install from that. > redhat7 is 32bit os, is is right?So I suppose you install a 32bit os > in a 64bit machine. > > > Worked fine. Also, dell has a "legacy" mode for the chip selectable in > > the bios - install has to be done in legacy mode, which can then be > > disabled when the new system is up and running on its own kernel. > > > But in my dell1400,I can't find any "legacy" mode? > > > google will help a lot with this one > > > > BillK > >
yes - there are (were?) a few incompatibilities still with 64 bit os'es that dont exist with 32 bit. Basicly, there still doesnt seem to be a compelling reason to go 64bit for a desktop at the moment. Servers are a different matter. I cant access the machine at the moment, so I cant get the bios links- its somewhere in the disk area. BillK -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
