doobit
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Posted: Mar. 07 2006,19:40 |
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Don't use that first computer. Linux has specific hardware requirements. Some versions work on some computers, and others work on other computers. Windows won't work on power PC or Sparc, for example, and until recently MacOS wouldn't work on x86 machines. There are 64bit versions of Linux made for Athlon 64 CPUs. DSL is not one of them. I also do not understand why you used an RC1 version which is for testing, instead of the stable version. It's entirely possible that the stable release will work on your computer, or maybe 2.1b would work because it has a different kernel.
I have been able to run DSL on my AMD Opteron dual CPU machine at work. That means it could work on your 64 bit machine. What I'm saying is, you can't necessarily expect it to because it wasn't made for that purpose.
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