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. >> _______________________________________________ >> users mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> Fedora Code of Conduct: >> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ >> List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines >> List Archives: >> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] >> >
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