I have read a lot of these HowTo's Tutorials and they are really great. However most of them are written against the 32-bit install. Almost all of them has the following text: Since I have 64-bit computers I wonder what modifications that I should be aware of if I install the 64-bits version of the software? As far as I know I can install the 32-bits OS in the computers. Will they be much slower than if I choose to use 64-bits? (I like to try to install Debian if this makes the install different than the other OS'es) Sammy
Depends on the distribution. Some of the tutorials work exactly the same on 64bit systems; on others, you might have to replace /usr/lib with /usr/lib64 in the tutorials.
Thank's Falko I still have one 64bits PC that I would like to try to set up as a server. I also have an old Toshiba laptop that I have tried to install Linux on. I tried Fedora, Suse, Mandriva and Centos, and none of them would run it for longer than a few minutes (some of them wouldnt even start it) before they froze it completely. I have very little knowledge of to fix the problems and did spend a lot of times searching google and forums, but wasn't able to get it running the way it should. However when I tried a net-install of Debian it did run nicely. Just out of the box, like we want it to do when we are newbees.. So, I think I would like to give Debian a chance now also. Sammy
