64 Bit installation prblem on IBM server

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Good Morning,

i’ve got my fingers on an used Server “IBM eServer xSeries 235” with twoway Xeon and 6 GB RAM, equipped with a IBM-ServeRaid, HDD’s and on.

This machine worked long time under Windows Server and was now replaced with somewaht bigger.

I tried OpenSUSE 11.1 - 32 Bit, this worked fine including Xen and more.

When installing OpenSUSE 11.1 - 64 Bit i get a message “This is a 32-Bit System, you can not install 64-Bit Software…”

I checked with other Distros, same result.

This server may be equipped with up to 12 GB RAM, so it should be a 64-bit system.

What am i dowing wrong?

Greetings
Shardan

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This server may be equipped with up to 12 GB RAM, so it should be a 64-bit system.

Not necessarily.
Lots of 32 bit systems are sold with far more RAM capability than they can make use of in Windows.
However, a 32 bit Linux system can use it with the PAE kernel, which will likely install by default anyway.

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caf4926 wrote:

> Lots of 32 bit systems are sold with far more RAM capability than they
> can make use of in Windows.

Well, some windows 32 bits releases are capable to handle more than 16 GB of
RAM :wink:

Greetings,

–
Camaleón