On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Felix Boecker wrote:
> 3) SuSE 9.1 Pro (I downloaded 5 CDs off a torrent since my Novell
> Resource Kit hasn't arrived yet). Now, this installed just fine and
> setting up the wireless card was a breeze ... only problem, it installed
> as i386!! And there are only i386 and i586 packages on the CDs.
> Everything on the web says that 9.1 Pro supports AMD natively without
> any extra add-ons and I found x86_64 RPMs on SuSE's FTP ... but they
> aren't on the CD (or on my HDD). Anyone who has the Resource Kit, are
> the 64bit RPMs on the install CDs or DVD? (In hopes that I will get mine
> sometime soon to fix this problem) Or how else could I go about
> installing 9.1 in native 64bit mode?
(fix your line wrap, please)
I don't think the Resource Kit from Novell is going to help, as I believe
it only has 32bit ix86 packages. Other stuff (source, x86-64, AMD, etc.)
took up more room (i.e. >3.9 GB) than they had available. I think;
here's the result of some commands that might help.
[eben@pc eben]$ find /mnt/dvd2/suse -type d -maxdepth 2
/mnt/dvd2/suse
/mnt/dvd2/suse/i586
/mnt/dvd2/suse/i686
/mnt/dvd2/suse/noarch
/mnt/dvd2/suse/setup
/mnt/dvd2/suse/setup/descr
/mnt/dvd2/suse/setup/slide
[eben@pc eben]$ find /mnt/dvd2/ -name '*lib*64*'
/mnt/dvd2/suse/i586/libghttp-devel-1.0.9-645.i586.rpm
/mnt/dvd2/suse/i586/libghttp-1.0.9-645.i586.rpm
/mnt/dvd2/suse/i586/t1lib-1.3.1-564.i586.rpm
/mnt/dvd2/suse/i586/t1lib-devel-1.3.1-564.i586.rpm
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