Re: 32 vs 64 bit hardware and software



It seems that I made a mistake in my previous attempts to run 32bit
binaries on an 64bit kernel. I tried it again on a 64 bit SuSE and it
seems to work "out of the box". You might find the following URL
useful:
http://www.novell.com/documentation/suse10/index.html?%20page=/documentation/suse10/adminguide/data/cha_64bit.html

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