Liam R E Quin <
liam@...> writes:
> On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 16:49 +0200, Olivier Thauvin wrote:
> [...]
>> Honestly, developers, sys admin and SGDB administrator can notice a
>> performance difference, especially if they need 64bits numerics values. But
>> theses people are normally able to do the good choice about the distro
>> architecture.
>
> With the total absence of clear information from Mandriva, even
> developers have problems. The installer didn't prompt me with my
> dual Intel Core Duo 2 system (which can run 64bit) so i assumed it
> was happily installing 2008.1 for 64-bit
Arch can be chosen at the bootloader step of the installer (first
screen, handled by gfxboot)
It defaults to 64 bits for systems supporting it.
--
Olivier Blin (blino) - Mandriva
