Do you actually have an AMD 64 edition?

[Andrzej 'The Undefined' Dopierała]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 10:34:40PM -0500, Erich Friesen wrote:
> Thanks for the info.  I will check out the forums.
> 
> I don't think AMD64 is not that special of an architecture any more--I have 
> been running 64 bit SuSE since SuSE 8.2 came out.  Scientific Linux, SuSE , 
> Slamd64 (a port of Slackware to 64 bit architecture) all have 64 bit editions 
> out, with iso's. 
yes, but..
PLD is developed by developers maintly for developers.
and - only few developers have amd64 architecture ;)
and nobody from them have a time for creating "true" installer ;)

next - some applications aren't still available for 64bit architecture -
for example - flash, java plugin etc.. 
so - it's still more "devel" version than other ix86.

but - now i have 3 machines with athlon64 and it's count still will grow
;)
 
> I have done quite a few network installs--mainly using SuSE (remember
> they did not have ISO out, and you had to do an ftp install) So I am
> not afraid of an unusual install--althoough I would like to get to a
> clean 64 bit solution--with everything 64 bit instead of some things
> in 32 bit land...
pld is fully 64bit ;)
so - there is no 32bit applications.. 

> Hope the forums are helpfull--I'll let you know how it goes...
i hope too :)

> 
> On Thursday 15 September 2005 06:51, you wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 10:05:11PM -0400, Erich Friesen wrote:
> > > This directory is blank (empty) when I open it.
> > >
> > > ftp://ftp.pld-linux.org/dists/ac/PLD/amd64/PLD/images
> > >
> > > Do you perhaps have .iso files?
> > >
> > > Looking to change from SuSE, and Fedora isn't really good.
> > >
> > > I like Scientific Linux, though. Would like to get someething different,
> > > esp. since the other half of my family is Polish....
> >
> > first - PLD is not 'Polish" distribution ;)
> > Some developers doesn't speak Polish ;)
> >
> > second - amd64/sparc/ppc/alfa - are 'architectures' for more advanced
> > users. There is no iso, nor installer - nobody didn't make it.
> > For amd64 - there are two "ways" to install:
> > - install 32bit system, for example - athlon, next install there 64bit
> >   kernel and upgrade, or install in another partition 64bit system.
> > - boot system from 64bit "beta" rescue-cd, and then install pld in
> >   chroot by hand( and poldek ;)
> >
> > better - look at http://forum.pld-linux.org/ (should be online in few
> > days), go into #pldhelp or #pld channel on ircnet, or subscribe to
> > pld-users-en at pld-linux.org - there are people, who could help you better
> > ;)
> >
> > > On Wednesday 14 September 2005 05:25 am, you wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 10:21:34PM -0500, Erich Friesen wrote:
> > > > > Do you actually have an AMD64 based distro?  The folder in your
> > > > > server "AMD64" has been empty for months.
> > > >
> > > > what folder?
> > > > lftp ftp.pld-linux.org:/dists/ac/PLD/amd64/PLD> pwd; ls
> > > > ftp://ftp.pld-linux.org/dists/ac/PLD/amd64/PLD
> > > > drwxr-xr-x    2 ftp      ftp            48 Jan 02  2004 BOOT
> > > > drwxr-xr-x    3 ftp      ftp        586080 Sep 11 18:36 RPMS
> > > > drwxr-xr-x    2 ftp      ftp            48 Jan 02  2004 by-group
> > > > drwxr-xr-x    2 ftp      ftp            48 Jan 02  2004 images
> > > > drwxr-xr-x    2 ftp      ftp            48 Jan 02  2004 inst
> > > >
> > > > there is no installer, so instalation is a little problematic(use
> > > > rescue or other system ;), but.. it works:
> > > > [undefine at uc64 undefine]$ uname -a; uptime
> > > > Linux uc64 2.6.11.10-6 #1 Fri May 27 20:55:12 UTC 2005 x86_64
> > > > AMD_Athlon(tm)_64_Processor_3000+ unknown PLD Linux
> > > >  11:05:30 up 37 days, 18:00, 126 users,  load average: 0.06, 0.09, 0.03
> > > >
> > > > (uc64 - my personal workstation)
> 
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> Erich Friesen
> 
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