DDQOTD (Dumb Distro Question of the Day) Does Fedora 10 install as a 64 bit OS when it senses 64 bit hardware?

Jarod Wilson jarod at wilsonet.com
Mon Apr 27 15:25:09 EDT 2009


Alex Hewitt wrote:
> 
> Just an update - the system that I was trying to install various 64 bit 
> Linux distros also wouldn't install Vista 64. Turns out the processor I 
> was using has some kind of TLB bug (AMD Phenom X4 9600).

Oh, haha, yeah, that tlb erratum was a nasty one... Prices on the 9x00 
series Phenom all dropped quite a bit after that one was discovered, and 
they were quickly replaced by 9x50 Phenoms, but they still sold the ones 
already out to resellers... (iirc).

--jarod


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