On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 10:14 -0500, Sam Drinkard wrote: > rado wrote: Note: This thread hijacked "[CentOS] Install from a USB CDrom?" Proper netiquette would dictate initiating a new thread rather than replying to an existing one. :-) > >Hi! > > > >In the next few days...maybe even this afternoon, I will be putting > >together a 64 w/the AMD Clawhammer 3700+ 64. > > > >This is my first experience w/64 architecture...so I need not say more > >on that. > > > >I only lack a couple mins from having the 4.2-x86_64 cds from the > >bittorrent. It says it's to handle the AMD Athlon 64 Opteron and > >Intel's xeon. > > > >Did I get the right package for this Clawhammer off the bittorrent or > >just which package do y'all suggest for this processor??? > > > >thx in advance, > > > >John Rose > > > > > > > John, I suspect you got the right package. I'm running it here on a > dual Xeon machine, and aside from the few quirks of library duplications > and the lack of a JVM for the browser, it does very well. I'm too lazy > to install the 32-bit version of Firefox or Mozilla either one and go > thru all the drill of installing the java vm, but I don't normally use > that box for surfing. It's normally tied up running wx models, and > that takes just about all the process time I can get from it. [OT - Sam, I would be interested in your experiences running weather models. We work weather/hazard sensing issues for aviation safety and may want to run wx models locally in the future.] Setting up 32-bit browsers/plugins is a bit of a PITA, but is quite doable. The following set of packages works-for-me: acroread-7.0.0-2.rf.i386 firefox-1.5-1.c4.centos4.i386 j2re-1.4.2_06-13.LaRC.i586 mozilla-1.7.12-1.4.1.centos4.i386 mozilla-acroread-7.0.0-2.rf.i386 mozilla-chat-1.7.12-1.4.1.centos4.i386 mozilla-devel-1.7.12-1.4.1.centos4.i386 mozilla-dom-inspector-1.7.12-1.4.1.centos4.i386 mozilla-js-debugger-1.7.12-1.4.1.centos4.i386 mozilla-mail-1.7.12-1.4.1.centos4.i386 mozilla-nspr-1.7.12-1.4.1.centos4.i386 mozilla-nspr-1.7.12-1.4.1.centos4.x86_64 mozilla-nspr-devel-1.7.12-1.4.1.centos4.i386 mozilla-nss-1.7.12-1.4.1.centos4.i386 mozilla-nss-1.7.12-1.4.1.centos4.x86_64 mozilla-nss-devel-1.7.12-1.4.1.centos4.i386 mozilla-nss-devel-1.7.12-1.4.1.centos4.x86_64 The j2re package is a local rebuild (due to Sun license/dependency weirdness) but equivalent ones can be found elsewhere. The firefox is from CentOS testing, but the current production version also works fine. Phil