Does the PE 1850 take a 64-bit Linux OS?

[Tino Schwarze]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 04:17:27PM -0500, SA wrote:

> Can anyone confirm that 64 bit Linux can be installed on a PowerEdge 1850?
> 
> I'm especially interested in 64-bit Debian Etch.
> 
> But if you've used a 64 bit version of any other distro on an 1850, please 
> speak up.

I've got a PE1850 with SuSE Linux 9.3 (x86-64).

This is the processor information (It is a dual Xeon with HT enabled):
processor       : 3
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 4
model name      :                   Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz
stepping        : 3
cpu MHz         : 2992.786
cache size      : 2048 KB
physical id     : 3
siblings        : 2
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 5
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall
nx lm pni monitor ds_cpl cid cx16 xtpr
bogomips        : 5980.16
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 128
address sizes   : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

IIRC, "lm" is the processor flag indicating 64 bit support, but that's
only guessing.

HTH,

Tino.

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