Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4631 mails)

[J Sloan <joe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote:
> Although not new to linux I am not a hardware person.  I have a rather 
> simplist (perhaps) question.  The question is whether 32 bit SuSE will work 
> on a 64 bit CPU?
> 
> I am planning on upgrading by linux machine to 64 bits and would like to use 
> the primary master (linux installation only) on the new machine - which would 
> make life considerably simpler for me.

32-bit suse can run on x86_64, but not ia64. It's unlikely that you have ia64
hardware, so the answer is most likely yes.

Just curious why you'd want to do that though.

Joe
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