Hi, On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2010-02-08 01:17, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Carlos E. R. wrote:
In fact, the retail 11.2 DVD only contains the x64 version, that's why I discovered this. :-o
Nice. Please do it and report here. I'm sure it works, at least it should this way. If you will experience show stoppers, they have to get solved.
If your system gets unusable, just do the procedure again and have a look at "not higher" new version numbers of packets than before, or inspect "rpm -qa --last" for the oldest packages and update them.
Now that I think, I have some programs in that install that will fail if I upgrade to x64, because they were compiled a few years ago, and no longer compile, because the gcc compiler got a lot more finicky with the warnings it would accept. It has been impossible to recompile for a long time now, so I kept using the old binary. They are programs not actively developed (for Fidonet: Golded+ and some more).
I might have to use those inside a vmware client running an older suse version. Or is it possible to run 32 bits apps in an x64 oS?
Of course 32-bit applications will run upon 64-bit architecture. If you are compiling yourself and 64-bit does not compile, you have gcc switches like -m i386. Viele Gruesse Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org) -- Eberhard Moenkeberg Arbeitsgruppe IT-Infrastruktur E-Mail: emoenke@gwdg.de Tel.: +49 (0)551 201-1551 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gesellschaft fuer wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Goettingen (GWDG) Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Goettingen URL: http://www.gwdg.de E-Mail: gwdg@gwdg.de Tel.: +49 (0)551 201-1510 Fax: +49 (0)551 201-2150 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Neumair Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Dipl.-Kfm. Markus Hoppe Sitz der Gesellschaft: Goettingen Registergericht: Goettingen Handelsregister-Nr. B 598 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org