The processor should be irrelevent to SAS. Even though this looks like devine retribution for taking that intel bung, the 64 bit instruction set is made visible by the OS. Was SUSE 32 bit and RHEL 64 bit edition?

Ben.

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 13:19:27 -0700, crunching <roger_2002il@YAHOO.COM> wrote:

>Hi group, > >We have a new Dual Intel Xeon processor (64 bit) workstation running >RHEL 4, and we are not able to install SAS (v9.1) on it. The installer >failed to recognize the SID file, complaining that the table of the >contents was invalid. > >SAS tech support says the X86_64 is not supported at all on Unix >systems, but >the SID file worked fine on another dual AMD Operton 64 bit worktation >that runs SUSE Linux (uname command shows the platform is x86-64 as >well). The problems seems to lie on either hardware (Xeon vs Opteron) >or OS (RHEL 4 vs SUSE) or both. > >Would anyone be willing to share his/her experience of installing SAS >on Xeon 64 RHEL platform? Thanks, > >Jim