Also the last 32 bit release of Fedora seems to be 30.

On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 1:08 PM Terry Polzin <[email protected]> wrote:

> Perhaps the optical drive has failed or lost its connection to the scsi
> bus.
>
> ls -l sr?
> or
> dmesg | less should tell you if you have a dev/sr0
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 12:25 PM Beartooth <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 08 Nov 2020 17:57:41 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
>>
>> > On 2020-11-08 13:07, Beartooth wrote:
>> >>
>> >>      I have a DVD with F 33 Live, in the drawer of an oldish machine.
>> >> I can't get it to boot from the DVD.
>>
>> > How to test for a 64 bit CPU:
>> >
>> > $ lscpu | grep -i bit CPU op-mode(s):                  32-bit, 64-bit
>> > Address sizes:                   39 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
>>
>>         Looks like I get what you get:
>>
>>  lscpu | grep -i bit
>> CPU op-mode(s):                  32-bit, 64-bit
>> Address sizes:                   39 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
>>
>>         -- but is that good or bad?
>>
>>         Fwiw, I tried over and over to get it to boot from a medium in
>> the
>> tray -- which I neither downloaded nor burned from this machine. But I
>> think it's not the image: no matter what I find to do in setup (in either
>> setup, actually -- there seem to be two), the machine shows no sign of
>> even knowing the medium is there. It just goes right into booting F 32.
>>
>>         It's possible that I'm failing to recognize the commands, in
>> either setup display, that will tell the machine to boot from a medium in
>> its drawer.
>>
>>         I tried opening and re-closing the drawer. The machine hadn't
>> mounted the medium, and still didn't. Neither Disk Mounter nor gnome-disk
>> sees anything in the drawer. Usermount launched by my user denies there
>> is anything I'm allowed to mount nor unmount, and admonishes me to
>> contact my administrator. As root, it pops up a box offering to let me
>> unmount /boot; /boot is full of F 32 files, but shows nothing with 33 in
>> its name.
>>
>>         I have not yet tried burning the .iso to a thumb drive. If the
>> lscpu result above doesn't mean doom, somebody please remind me how to do
>> it, or where to re-read how!
>> --
>> Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
>> Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.
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