It's likely a setting in the BIOS. http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1003945 On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Randy Clarksean <rclarksean at arvig.net> wrote: > Ok .. just purchased a used Dell PowerEdge 6850 on Ebay. 4 CPUs at 3.16 > GHz. I purchased it to make a computational box out of it ... wanting the 8 > cores and lots of memory. > > Now ... I put VMWare ESxi 4.0 on it and was installing a 64 bit version of > Scientific Linux. During the install ... it tells me that I can not install > a 64 bit version ... and that I should install a 32 bit version. > > The CPU details are listed below ... I THOUGHT these were 64 bit CPUs ... > did I mess up? > > 3.16GHZ INTEL XEON-MP 667MHZ SOCKET 604 1MB SL84U > > Thoughts and comments welcome. Thanks in advance. > > Randy > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >