[immigrants-discuss] Distribution DVDs: x86 kernel on DVD always starts in 32bit

[John Martinez]

On Mar 21, 2007, at 1:29 PM, Peter Kehl wrote:

> ...
> It's fine if installation x86 DVDs start only in 32bit mode. However,
> that confuses users a lot - it suggests that the release may not run
> in 64bit on their machine and may not be worth installing (in some
> situations). Therefore, would you put a not e about it to installation
> docs. ...

A colleague of mine and I were just talking about this very topic  
this morning. I thought it was odd that Sun did that, but it never  
really dawned on me as an issue, since I knew the machine was 64 bit  
capable and that the OS would boot up in 64 bit mode, once installed.

But you are right, I can see how some users would be questioning the  
64 "bitness" if the OS instance on the install DVD did not come up in  
64 bit mode.

-john