FC3 for x86_64?

[Janina Sajka]

Liz Hare writes:
> 
> 
> >if you intend to crunch lots of numbers! <grin>
> 
> Yup, that's what this <hopefully> speedy new machine is for....
> 
> >I feel bad about sending you to FC3 for x86_64. The amount of updating
> >following the installation will be truly prodigious.Any reason you
> >shouldn't just do FC4?
> 
> I thought that there wasn't a speakup-modified FC4 yet.... did I miss 
> something?

You can use a speakup Modified FC3 kernel on an FC4 installation. It
works.

> 
> I'm really confused about this process-- I'm installing a whole new Linux, 
> here, and am not sure how to proceed.  I see that in the directory for FC3 
> there is a subdirectory for x86_64.  Should I install the regular version 
> first from the ISO's and then add the rpms in the x86_64 after that?  Or do 
> I somehow need to create install disks with the x86_64 rpms?

You need a complete set of x86_64 iso images/disks. You also need to
boot specifically using x86_64 files. I do see that there are none such
on the Speakup site. Can you do a telnet install? Forgetting for the
moment that you may not have done that before, do you have a second
machine that can be used to control the process with speech? Or,

> 
> Sorry to be so dense, here....
> Liz 
> 
> 
> 
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