[SLL] 32 bit distro that supports 4GB ram with stock kernel

Eric Kahklen eric at kahklen.com
Wed Apr 2 09:30:01 PDT 2008


It is a 32bit live image.  I downloaded the 32 bit out of habit :)   
I'll try the 64bit next.

Thanks!
Eric
On Apr 2, 2008, at 9:22 AM, Jesse Keating wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 09:20 -0700, Eric Kahklen wrote:
>>
>> I just booted into a Fedora live CD and here is the meminfo:
>>
>> [fedora at localhost ~]$ cat /proc/meminfo
>> MemTotal:      3078552 kB
>>
>> And here is my CPU:
>>
>> [fedora at localhost ~]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
>> processor       : 0
>> vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
>> cpu family      : 6
>> model           : 15
>> model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     T7300  @ 2.00GHz
>>
>>
>> It is a T61 Thinkpad so I am wondering if it is a BIOS issue?
>
> Is this a 32bit Live image or a 64bit Live image?  If you boot a 32bit
> live image, you're only going to see the CPUs as 32bit...
>
> I'm almost 100% certain that T61s are capable of 64bit OSs.
>
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