On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 19:17 -0500, Rejean Proulx wrote: > This could well be a silly question, but I'm sure many would wonder the same > thing. I have a 64 bit kernel but installed the 32 bit install. Can I put in > a 64 bit kernel and will it still work? > > A reasonable question is, why didn't you install a 64 bit install in the > first place. The answer is, I tried. I could not get the cd's or dvd to pass > the test during the install even though it passed the sh1sum test or what > ever it is. I tried ignoring that fact, and it was a stupid thing to do as > it crashed. If I could install a 64 bit kernel with speakup, I could > upgrade when fc5 comes and maybe I'd get lucky and the upgrade would leave > my kernel alone so my machine would still talk. That assumes that I get my > current grub kernel problems solved, which I'm sure I will. Is your hardware 64-bit? Is it an Athlon 64, Opteron or EM64T processor? If so, you can update your machine to 64-bit by installing the redhat- release package from the FC5t2 AMD64 distro then run yum update. Thomas
