[ale] Trouble with new Pentium D

Christopher Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Tue Jan 9 11:24:10 EST 2007


On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 11:01 -0500, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> What's keeping you?  I was running 64-bit Gentoo on an AMD64 in 2003...

Hardware.  I don't own any 64 bit yet.
> 
> Anyway, according to Wikipedia, the Pentium D is an
> EM64T-instruction-set machine, meaning that it's an x86-64 CPU. 
> 
> According to Wikipedia, x86 support is native within x86-64, suggesting
> that if a SuSE CD is complaining, then it's just because SuSE is being
> Microsoftean with their install process.
> 
> Just run Gentoo and be done with it... :)
> 

No.  Also need to run Vmware, flash, etc.






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