Re: [opensuse] Switching to more RAM

2008-01-29 Thread Aaron Kulkis
James Knott wrote: Aaron Kulkis wrote: At which point during the installation do you choose 32-bit or 64-bit? When you choose to use the 32-bit installation DVD or the 64-bit installation DVD. IIRC, the boxed set includes both versions on one DVD, but the download ones don't. You can cho

Re: [opensuse] Switching to more RAM

2008-01-28 Thread Chee How Chua
On Jan 28, 2008 8:22 PM, James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aaron Kulkis wrote: > >> > >> At which point during the installation do you choose 32-bit or 64-bit? > > > > > > > > When you choose to use the 32-bit installation DVD or > > the 64-bit installation DVD. > > > > > IIRC, the boxed set

Re: [opensuse] Switching to more RAM

2008-01-28 Thread James Knott
Aaron Kulkis wrote: >> >> At which point during the installation do you choose 32-bit or 64-bit? > > > > When you choose to use the 32-bit installation DVD or > the 64-bit installation DVD. > > IIRC, the boxed set includes both versions on one DVD, but the download ones don't. -- Use OpenOffice

Re: [opensuse] Switching to more RAM

2008-01-28 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Chee How Chua wrote: On Jan 25, 2008 11:33 AM, Benji Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Your AM2 CPU will be a 64bit CPU presumably, so you won't need to change the kernel, unless you're using 32bit openSUSE. -- Benjamin Weber Hi, At which point during the installation do you choose 32-bit or

Re: [opensuse] Switching to more RAM

2008-01-25 Thread peter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chee How Chua schrieb: | At which point during the installation do you choose 32-bit or 64-bit? | It occurred to me that I've never got to install 64-bit openSUSE. Usually you use the whole 64bit Opensuse. I'm not quite sure if it's that smart to us

Re: [opensuse] Switching to more RAM

2008-01-25 Thread peter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Benji Weber schrieb: | Your AM2 CPU will be a 64bit CPU presumably, so you won't need to | change the kernel, unless you're using 32bit openSUSE. Thx Benji! I use 32bit indeed. I think I'll stick to it (bigsmp) for now. The move to the new Asrock mo

Re: [opensuse] Switching to more RAM

2008-01-25 Thread Chee How Chua
On Jan 25, 2008 11:33 AM, Benji Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Your AM2 CPU will be a 64bit CPU presumably, so you won't need to > change the kernel, unless you're using 32bit openSUSE. > > -- > Benjamin Weber Hi, At which point during the installation do you choose 32-bit or 64-bit? It occur

Re: [opensuse] Switching to more RAM

2008-01-24 Thread Benji Weber
On 24/01/2008, peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi hackers > > an this weekend I'm gonna change my motherboard and expand the RAM from > 2GB to 6GB. Main utilization for it would be 2GB for Opensuse and 4GB > for Winxp in VMWware. > > AFAIK I ne

Re: [opensuse] Switching to more RAM

2008-01-24 Thread peter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rajko M. schrieb: | On Thursday 24 January 2008 11:01:00 am Per Jessen wrote: |> peter wrote: |>> 2. My swap partition is only 4GB big. Would it be a problem to keep |>> that size for a week or two? What is your experience in working with |>> "too sm

Re: [opensuse] Switching to more RAM

2008-01-24 Thread Rajko M.
On Thursday 24 January 2008 11:01:00 am Per Jessen wrote: > peter wrote: > > 2. My swap partition is only 4GB big. Would it be a problem to keep > > that size for a week or two? What is your experience in working with > > "too small" swap partition? > > No problems whatsoever. Just don't try suspe

Re: [opensuse] Switching to more RAM

2008-01-24 Thread Per Jessen
peter wrote: > 2. My swap partition is only 4GB big. Would it be a problem to keep > that size for a week or two? What is your experience in working with > "too small" swap partition? No problems whatsoever. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- http://www.spamchek.com/ - your spam is our business. --

[opensuse] Switching to more RAM

2008-01-24 Thread peter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi hackers an this weekend I'm gonna change my motherboard and expand the RAM from 2GB to 6GB. Main utilization for it would be 2GB for Opensuse and 4GB for Winxp in VMWware. AFAIK I need then the kernel-bigsmp. (http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/