On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 09:44 +1100, Maung Nanda Linn Aung wrote: > I recently bought Intel iMac Duo Core 2.16mhz and would love to try > Zod. I just want a confirmation that whether my Intel iMac belongs to > i386 family or x86_64? Core 2 Duos fully support x86-64, so if you don't mind the fact that a lot of proprietary Linux software is binary-only 32-bit stuff (like win32codecs, Adobe's Acrobat Reader & Flash stuff, et al.), I'd recommend using the x86-64 builds. Then again, you can still run 32-bit stuff on a 64-bit install should the need arise (if you're up for the pain of multilib...) I've got x86_64 Fedora (a mix of FC-6 and Rawhide stuff) running just beautifully on my E6600-based system (DG965WH ATX motherboard). Note that depending on the chipset you may need to pass the 'irqpoll', 'all-generic-ide', and/or 'pci=nommconfig' kernel parameters to get it functioning properly. After a BIOS update, my system only needed 'all-generic-ide', as it autodetected everything else. (IIRC, if you pass these as boot options to the installer disc, it *should* automagically write those to the installed bootloader configuration.) Hope that helps. -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) / FSF Associate Member #5015 GnuPG Public Key ID: 0xFFC19479 / Fingerprint: DD68 A414 56BD 6368 D957 9666 4268 CB7A FFC1 9479 Blog: http://thecodergeek.com/blog/ About: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PeterGordon
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