AMD64 Disc 1
Scott Long
scottl at samsco.org
Sun Jun 5 03:03:01 GMT 2005
David O'Brien wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 06:19:23PM -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote:
>
>>Although my first attempt at installing AMD64 failed because the vendor
>>sent me the wrong motherboard I was wondering.. does the AMD64 install
>>looks any different than the i386?
>
>
> Not really - during the installation they both use sysinstall. If you
> mount disc1 and look at the contents they will also be about the same.
>
> You can extract a file from "base" and then file(1) it to determine which
> platform a CD is for.
>
/boot/kernel/kernel on the CD will also be distinguishable, as will
/stand/sysinstall.
Scott
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