Re: Fedora and Intel EM64T Xeon Processor based machine

[Joel Jaeggli <joelja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

dell typically certfies their servers to run a particular version of 
redhat. that would probably be a good place to start. you're dealing with 
a spanking new processor and chipset so there's probably a little 
excitement to be had in doing that.

joelja

 On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Mark Farmer wrote:

> ranjeet walunj wrote:
> > Hi group.
> >
> > We have just purchased a dell 1850 machine with dual XEON (nacona) EM64T
> > technology.
> > I've tried installing FEDORA core 2 and 3 Test 2. But nothing worked.
> >
> > Can somebody please tell me whether is it possible to install Fedora on
> > specified technology machine or I've to switch to some other distro like
> > debian/suse 9.1/gentoo ?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ranjeet Walunj
>
> I think that's a 64bit cpu? (Correct me if i'm wrong!)
>
> Obvious question but if the above is true are you using the 64 bit version of 
> Fedora?

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