Which Fedora to use for Pentium Extreme Edition hardware.

byhisdeeds · #1 28th August 2006, 07:55 PM

I'm building a new system with a Intel D945PVSLKR motherboard and Pentium D 840 DC LGA775 3.2GHz 2MB 800MHz 90nm 130W EM64T eXtreme CPU. I'm just checking here whether I should use the FC5smp or 64 bit FC5 to work with this hardware, as I'm not clear on whether I'm moving into the 64bit world here.

Can anybody enlighten me!

Thanks.

SlowJet · #2 28th August 2006, 08:05 PM

Install both, but start with 32 bit and then try 64 bit.

If the CPU is HT then you can install kernel-smp, and if it is duo core it will figure that out, too.
But 64 bit has it's extra set of problems.

SJ

byhisdeeds · #3 28th August 2006, 08:08 PM

Ok. So I can use the 32bit FC5smp (which I am more familiar with) and I won't suffer any penalty with a mismatch between the 32bit OS and the internal size of the CPU.

SlowJet · #4 28th August 2006, 08:19 PM

FC5 32 bit will install kernel up and then you must install kernel-smp (for FC6 they are all just kernel and it figures up, smp out at boot time.

Fot FC5 64 bit (i think) there is only kerenel and it act like FC6, because if it is 64 bit it is either a duo core or a dual processer.

Note: 64 bit also has 32 bit packages and this changes a lot in FC6. So learn now and use FC6 later.

SJ

EDIT: YES, that's what I would do.

byhisdeeds · #5 28th August 2006, 08:26 PM

Thank you very much.