Topic: Can 6.0.1 work on a 64 bit machine

[jaykay]

I'm a complete newbie in terms of SME, but have been using Linux (mainly Red Hat and Fedora) for almost 3 years.  The general advice is that SME can run on anything that RH 7.2 would run on (I came in at RH .  RH 8 had a 64 bit version, but did RH 7.2?  More importantly, can SME 6.0.1 work on an AMD 64 processor?  Or do I need to dig out the old Celeron 850 MB to run this?

[genzil]

It should work and I don't see any reason why it wouldn't.  It is no different from running any 32bit distro on a AMD64.

You are more likely to run into problems with stuff like SATA disks, Red Hat 7.x doesn't support it.  Also newer network cards might not work.

If you want my suggestion:- just try it and if it boots and you are using IDE disks and a standard network card it should work.

Let us know.

P.S. The 850 is good enough providing it has enough RAM and you don't plan on hammering the box, you might want to save the AMD64 for another job such as database server, editing videos or other intense jobs.

[dcniki]

I don't know specifically if SME has any problems on a 64bit machine, but if it will run on a 32bit machine it will run on a 64, it just won't use it's capabilities.
If it will support the hardware (nic, video... whatever) it will work.

I have two in the office running XPPro (not the 64 bit edition) and all is well. No drivers available for all but one of the printers in the office for the 64 bit edition.

You're thinking to hard about what a 64 bit computer is...

286 - single lane road
386 - 2 lane road
486 - divided highway
586 - 4 lane freeway
686 - 8 lane super highway

You get the idea - still just roads. 64 bit - really big road, but still a road.