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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] switch from 32bit opensuse to 64bit
From:       Hans Witvliet <suse () a-domani ! nl>
Date:       2014-03-13 8:06:30
Message-ID: 1394697990.12466.106.camel () orion1
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On Thu, 2014-03-13 at 08:41 +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
> Linda Walsh wrote:
> 
> > Per Jessen wrote:
> >> Paul Neuwirth wrote:
> >>
> >> > Hallo,
> >> > I accidently installed 32 bit opensuse on several machines.
> >> > Is there an easy way to switch to 64bit? such as adding 86_64 repos
> >> > and zypper --dup --allow-architecture-change (unfortunately this
> >> > option doesn't exist)?
> >> > Any hints?
> >> > A notice in the setup, that a 32bit os is going to be installed on
> >> > a 64bit system would be very nice...
> >>
> >> :-) It might be intentional.  32bit apps use less memory, if you run
> >> a lot of them, there's more room with a 32bit os.
> >
> > Would be easy to tell -- if the user has >=8G, go for 64-bit, else
> > ask?
> > 
> 
> Yep, not a bad idea. 

Put the limit much lower:
If the system has <4G go 32bit
Not only older hardware, but also for virtual machines.

The area just above 4G could be covered with 32-bit with PAE, but that
should be considered duck-tape from the past.

hw

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