On 11/03/16 07:10, jd1008 wrote:
On 11/02/2016 11:59 AM, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On 11/02/2016 10:41 AM, jd1008 wrote:
>> Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-24-1.2.iso
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http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/24/Workstation/x86_64/iso/Fedor...
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>> 14-Jun-2016 17:13 1G
>> Fedora-Workstation-Live-i386-24-1.2.iso
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http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/24/Workstation/i386/iso/Fedora-...
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>> 14-Jun-2016 17:27 2G
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>> Why?
> Have you looked at the file lists? I haven't (I don't have any 32-bit
> machines), but a first guess may be that the 32-bit version has both
> PAE and non-PAE kernels, libraries, etc., so you have more "stuff" to
> support the hardware environment adequately.
On the face of it, it sounds logical, but it makes no sense.
I can understand that 64bit systems are supposed to support 32bit apps,
but I have never come across a 32bit system that supports 64bit apps.
Apps do not depend on low level PAE OS architecture.
It makes perfect sense.
The PAE kernel allows for access of up to 64GB of RAM from a max of 4GB on 32 bit systems
whose CPU's offer the PAE extension. Nothing to do with support of 32-bit v.s. 64-bit
apps.
If you mount the WS-32bit iso and then mount the squashfs under LiveOS and then mount the
rootfs.img under LiveOS of the mounted squashfs you'd see....
[egreshko@meimei iso2]$ ls
bin dev home lost+found mnt proc run srv tmp var
boot etc lib media opt root sbin sys usr
[egreshko@meimei iso2]$ ls boot
config-4.5.5-300.fc24.i686 initramfs-4.5.5-300.fc24.i686+PAE.img
config-4.5.5-300.fc24.i686+PAE initrd-plymouth.img
efi memtest86+-5.01
elf-memtest86+-5.01 System.map-4.5.5-300.fc24.i686
extlinux System.map-4.5.5-300.fc24.i686+PAE
grub2 vmlinuz-4.5.5-300.fc24.i686
initramfs-4.5.5-300.fc24.i686.img vmlinuz-4.5.5-300.fc24.i686+PAE
While with the WS-64bit iso you'd see
[egreshko@meimei iso2]$ ls
bin dev home lib64 media opt root sbin sys usr
boot etc lib lost+found mnt proc run srv tmp var
[egreshko@meimei iso2]$ ls boot
config-4.5.5-300.fc24.x86_64 initramfs-4.5.5-300.fc24.x86_64.img
efi initrd-plymouth.img
elf-memtest86+-5.01 memtest86+-5.01
extlinux System.map-4.5.5-300.fc24.x86_64
grub2 vmlinuz-4.5.5-300.fc24.x86_64
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