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Re: why 32 bit ubuntu can install 64 bit openjdk?

From Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: why 32 bit ubuntu can install 64 bit openjdk?
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Date 2013-07-05 08:58 +0300

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Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> writes:
> On Thu, 04 Jul 2013 23:08:01 +0200, Joerg Meier wrote:
>> On Thu, 4 Jul 2013 20:47:54 +0000 (UTC), Martin Gregorie wrote:
>>> On Wed, 03 Jul 2013 17:53:50 +0300, Jukka Lahtinen wrote:
>>>> There wouldn't BE a 32 bit OS with more than 4 GB of memory, if the OS
>>>> installer would automatically choose a 64 bit version.
>>> Of course there could. If you want that, you just run a Linux PAE
>>> kernel on 64 bit hardware.
>> 
>> How would you run a PAE kernel if a 64 bit kernel was automatically
>> installed ? While what you said is true, you don't seem to have read
>> what you responded to.
>>
> Huh? IIRC it is the JRE that's being automatically installed, not the 
> kernel. If the installer is any good, it should recognise that its 

The OS installer installs the OS, and if it has chosen a 64-bit version,
there will be no PAE kernel installed.
OTOH, you often choose the OS version (including bitness) by choosing 
a specific installation media, and that is done before starting
the installer.

-- 
Jukka Lahtinen

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why 32 bit ubuntu can install 64 bit openjdk? mcheung63@gmail.com - 2013-07-02 05:16 -0700
  Re: why 32 bit ubuntu can install 64 bit openjdk? Sven Köhler <remove-sven.koehler@gmail.com> - 2013-07-02 15:49 +0300
  Re: why 32 bit ubuntu can install 64 bit openjdk? Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2013-07-02 14:54 +0200
    Re: why 32 bit ubuntu can install 64 bit openjdk? lipska the kat <"nospam at neversurrender dot co dot uk"> - 2013-07-02 14:07 +0100
      Re: why 32 bit ubuntu can install 64 bit openjdk? Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2013-07-02 16:14 +0200
        Re: why 32 bit ubuntu can install 64 bit openjdk? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2013-07-02 12:25 -0700
          Re: why 32 bit ubuntu can install 64 bit openjdk? Sven Köhler <remove-sven.koehler@gmail.com> - 2013-07-02 22:30 +0300
          Re: why 32 bit ubuntu can install 64 bit openjdk? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-07-02 21:44 -0400
            Re: why 32 bit ubuntu can install 64 bit openjdk? Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid> - 2013-07-03 17:53 +0300
              Re: why 32 bit ubuntu can install 64 bit openjdk? Sven Köhler <remove-sven.koehler@gmail.com> - 2013-07-03 19:01 +0300
              Re: why 32 bit ubuntu can install 64 bit openjdk? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-07-03 22:31 -0400
              Re: why 32 bit ubuntu can install 64 bit openjdk? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2013-07-04 20:47 +0000
                Re: why 32 bit ubuntu can install 64 bit openjdk? Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2013-07-04 23:08 +0200
                Re: why 32 bit ubuntu can install 64 bit openjdk? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2013-07-04 21:42 +0000
                Re: why 32 bit ubuntu can install 64 bit openjdk? Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid> - 2013-07-05 08:58 +0300
                Re: why 32 bit ubuntu can install 64 bit openjdk? Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2013-07-05 10:54 +0200

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