Edwards, Scott (MED, Kelly IT Resouces) wrote: > Anyway I rang Dell up and talked to someone in tech support and he said > he didn't know of any reason that FC2 wouldn't run on that machine. He > couldn't find anything that said it was a 64-bit machine. > If it isn't a 64-bit machine I can't see why there would be any problem > at all. Well, I thought Intel were only doing their version of AMD 64 on Xeons at the moment. But a quick search on Dell's website leads to these pages, which mention EM64T: http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/precn_370?c=us&cs=&l=en&s=bsd&; http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/precn_370?c=us&cs=&l=en&s=biz&; But it should run 32 bit Fedora perfectly well. 64 bit might be harder: http://anandtech.com/linux/showdoc.aspx?i=2158 says "Fedora Core 2 refused to install on the IA32e machine because there was no recognized AMD CPU." But I can't see anything in Bugzilla related to this... The main point to watch out for, presumably, is whether Fedora supports the latest Intel SATA adapter. I notice that both pages list Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a supported OS, so the outlook is good. HTH, James. -- E-mail address: james | "[the computer] belonged to our Rabid NT Guy, and we @westexe.demon.co.uk | called it Kant partly because we were naming servers | after philosophers and theologians, and partly | because it couldn't. -- Anthony DeBoer
