Solaris Express Site?

What's with Sun's Solaris Express download site? It's been down for "maintenance" for the last three days.

I was able to get networking to partially work with a similar setup, no DNS yet.
VMWare configured for Bridged, VMWare Tools installed. Mistake I made was booting the first time without checking that VMWare was set to Bridged and not NAT.
ifconfig -a plumbfound a pcn0 device and then
ifconfig pcn0 up
ifconfig pcn0 dhcpGot an IP address.
I can now SSH to my linux host from Solaris but no DNS and the gnome network administration tool keeps having a problem with the "backend script" it is trying to run. Back to Solaris 10 reference book I go.

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Solaris Express Login Problem

Hello,
I'm a complete rookie with Sun & Solaris, so any help someone could offer would be greatly appreciated!
I have a SunBlade 1500 (SPARC) that I purchased from university surplus. The hard drive was wiped, so I needed to install an OS. I don't have a DVD burner, so I downloaded Solaris Express Text Install, because it was the only OS I could find that would work with SPARC & could be burned to CD. Installation went fine, & the hard drive now boots to the disk. But here is my problem:
At bootup, I am asked to login, and I don't know what to do. During install, I had to make several entries for passwords & such. The "computer name" is solaris, and the "root password" is sunblade1500. I entered Bugs Bunny for "real name", Bugs for "user name", and bugs123 for "user password". I've tried all different combinations of these when prompted for login, but the only ones that seem to work and not give a "login incorrect" message are when I use either "Bugs" or "Bugs Bunny" as login, and "bugs123" as password.
Here is verbatim text of what the screen shows when I try to login with these entries:
solaris console login: Bugs
Password: bugs123
Last login: Wed Aug 17 14:06:41 on console
Oracle Corporation SunOS 5.11 snv_151a November 2010
Bugs@solaris:~$
After the last line (Bugs@solaris:~$), it just sits there with a prompt for me to enter something to go further, and I don't know what to enter. I've tried root, boot, startx and none of those work. What am I doing wrong, please? Thank you VERY much!

879952 wrote:
At bootup, I am asked to login, and I don't know what to do. During install, I had to make several entries for passwords & such. The "computer name" is solaris, and the "root password" is sunblade1500. I entered Bugs Bunny for "real name", Bugs for "user name", and bugs123 for "user password". I've tried all different combinations of these when prompted for login, but the only ones that seem to work and not give a "login incorrect" message are when I use either "Bugs" or "Bugs Bunny" as login, and "bugs123" as password.
Here is verbatim text of what the screen shows when I try to login with these entries:
solaris console login: Bugs
Password: bugs123
Last login: Wed Aug 17 14:06:41 on console
Oracle Corporation SunOS 5.11 snv_151a November 2010
Bugs@solaris:~$
After the last line (Bugs@solaris:~$), it just sits there with a prompt for me to enter something to go further, and I don't know what to enter. I've tried root, boot, startx and none of those work. What am I doing wrong, please? Thank you VERY much!You haven't done anything wrong.
You are logged in as the user bugs* and the system is sitting at a command-line OS prompt.
... I downloaded Solaris Express Text Install, because it was the only OS I could find that would work with SPARC & could be burned to CD. Installation went fine, & the hard drive now boots to the disk. But here is my problem:
You pulled the text-only distribution.
It's a full UNIX but you won't have a GUI.
The install files for the GUI are too much to fit on a CD.
I think it may be time for you to go buy some books.
You can also consider crawling Oracle's site for Solaris documentation.
Start here: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris/overview/index.html
You can also glance at the documentation for your system.
Start here: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19127-01/index.html
Perhaps others will choose to comment on your initial post as well.

Solaris Express Developer Ed. 5/07 boot crashes

* Crash 1:
I successfully installed Solaris Express Developer Ed. 5/07 on a Dell Inspiron 510m laptop, but after rebooting and selecting Solaris Express from the grub boot menu, the screen gets filled with:
Nested trap, calling reset()
Nested trap, calling reset()
.. and the computer reboots.
* Crash 2:
I also successfully installed Solaris Express Developer Ed. 5/07 on a AMD64 3200+, Gigabyte GA-K8N-SLI, but after rebooting and selecting Solaris Express from the grub boot menu, a message like this is shown (for a split second before restarting) if I boot into 32-bit mode or "failsafe mode":
module "ehci" something something, "NULL dereference" something.
If I boot into (default) 64-bit mode, there is another type of crash output that is not possible to read. Looks like some kind of kernel panic.
The only way I get Solaris Express working is by installing it in VMWare, but that is too slow on those two computers.
What to do? Is there anything I could try except running in 32-bit mode?

but installing linux on my computer with two sata
disk teached me to ask carefully from experienced
people before going to insall the OS.
I have
hda1 windows
hdb4 linux ext3
hdb3 linux swap
hdb5 solaris partition (i think)
i'm not sure you can install solaris partition on extended partition?!
usually, we install solaris on a primary partition, and if the first partition of the extended one is FAT32, solaris can mount it
What i am looking to know is, whether any one shared
idea dn experience and screenshot about developing
java applications in solaris.search on netbeans site, there are many screenshots
Also I can not find whether SxDE has Sun N1 grid with
itself or not.
i don't understand what relation you see between java developpment and N1 grid? N1 grid is to deploy apps and/or OS on many machines, isn't it? but i think you can download it on sun site.
hth,
gerard

Keyboard problem on solaris express de installation

Hello i m having problem to install solaris express developper edition on my pc, as when the installation start, it doesnt take anything i type from the keyboard.
It s solaris express release 5.11 version snv_57.
My keyboard is standard ps2 keyboard. I tried with two keyboards and i have the same problem.
Someone knows how to solve this issue ? Is there anything to configure in bios ?
thank you for any help

Solved by using a usb keyboard...

Unable to play audio video files in solaris express

I am unable to play mp3 and avi files in my newly installed oracle solaris express. I have installed 'gnome-audio', 'gnome-media', 'gstreamer', 'gstramer/plugin/gnonlin' packages. I have even installed 'IPSFWmpeg' MPEG-1 liabrary from sunfreeware repository. All these softwares are shown as installed packages in my package manager. But still on playing any video in totem movie player or audio file in rhythmbox player, a dialog box with an error message is displayed "The playback of this movie requires a MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3) decoder plugin which is not installed".
What should i do to play avi files in Totem movie player and mp3 files in Rhythmbox music player? Please don't suggest other media players because i want to use only above said totem and rhythmbox and i want to know what's wrong with my software installations?

You can get a free MP3 codec from Fluendo (http://www.fluendo.com/shop/product/fluendo-mp3-decoder/). There are some instructions on setting it up here: http://blogs.sun.com/observatory/entry/playing_your_mp3s_with_songbird.

No gnome in Solaris Express 11?

Hi,
I have installled Solaris Express 11 (sol-11-exp-201011-text-x86.iso) on VMWare.
After installation I have discovered that there is no GUI.
Have I installed incorrect image? Or maybe Sol 11 doesn't have gnome?
Regards,
Daniel

Try "pkg search gnome" - this will search the online repository for gnome packages. The install CD does not contain a full set of packages - it just gets Sol 11 Express up and running. Use the pkg command to install the rest.

A problem logging in in Solaris Express Developer Edition 05/07

Hi all.
I just upgraded Solaris 10 11/06 to Solaris Express Developer Edition 05/07 on a Sun Ultra 20 M2 and a strange problem arose: after root has logged in in a Gnome session, then when another user tries to log in in Gnome everything slows down: the login screen with "Window manager" takes some 20 secs to go away and then "Panel" sticks there... The only option is killing X with ctrl+alt+backspce. This only happens if root logs in with Gnome, and not in CDE. If root doesn't log in, nothing strange happens ever.
The problem seems unrelated with the user that logs in:
- existing users which could login in Solaris 10 11/06 now have this problem
- new users have this problem too...
Rebooting the machine and never logging in to Gnome with root "solves" the problem.
Has anyone ever had this problem?
Can be a problem relating to upgrading?
Thanks,
Enrico.

You should probably direct SXDE queries to the forums at http://opensolaris.org, more chance of a response from the JDS developers there.
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calum

Solaris Express, Dev. Edition 2/07 install problem

Im trying to install the solaris express developer edition 2/07 dvd i got in the mail.
Everything goes fine until i have to set up the hard drive for installation. I have two hard drives, 1 SATA (Server 2003), and a 20Gb IDE for this Solaris install.
When i click next to start installing, it drops out with an error against Solaris Software. the error is as follows:
ERROR: Could not create Fdisk partition table.
ERROR: Could not label disks
ERROR: Could not update disks with new configuration
ERROR: System installation failed
Pfinstall failed. Exit stat = java.lang.UNIXProcess@2af0812
sing existing Solaris fdisk partition (c2d1)
Im not a nub to linux but i have never used solaris and its been a few years since i've touched it - but im familiar with console.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. =D

You do not supply more comprehensive info on Your hardware. Therefore I would like to suggest quite conservative approach.
1. First of all it will be helpful to get from SUN's website the "Install check tool". It is an image (bootable CD) of diagnostic soft.
2. Disable in Bios the SATA disk.
3. Boot the computer with "Install_check_tool" CD inserted into the drive. I hope that this diagnostics will be OK.
4. Restart the computer and start Solaris installation. You can perform this step directly after step no. 2. Now Bios will see only IDE disc and installation should proceed OK. If not - supply more info on Your hardware and resulting (in this situation) diagnostics.
Good luck!

Solaris Express Developer 9/07 gcc can't find GTK-2

Solaris Express Developer 9/07 configure can't find GTK-2
located in /usr/lib/gtk-2.0 & /usr/include/gtk-2.0
It is my understanding that default ld includes /usr/lib (i.e. crle ouput)
Any help appreciated.
John
Update:
installed packages /opt/cfw
atk-1.10.1-Solaris10-x86.pkg
gtk-2.8.3-Solaris10-x86.pkg
cairo-1.0.0-Solaris10-x86.pkg
pango-1.10.0-Solaris10-x86.pkg
glib-2.8.1-Solaris10-x86.pkg
Configuration file [version 4]: /var/ld/ld.config
Platform: 32-bit LSB 80386
Default Library Path (ELF): /lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib:/opt/sfw/lib:/opt/cfw/lib:/opt/gnu/lib
Trusted Directories (ELF): /lib/secure:/usr/lib/secure (system default)
Command line:
crle -c /var/ld/ld.config -l /lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib:/opt/sfw/lib:/opt/cfw/lib:/opt/gnu/lib
Still fails!
Edited by: jhawk on Oct 10, 2007 7:01 PM

jhawk@solaris-devx gftp-2.0.18rc1 >export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/cfw/lib/gtk-2.0:/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib:/opt/sfw/lib
jhawk@solaris-devx gftp-2.0.18rc1 >./configure --prefix=/usr/local
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/ginstall -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... no
checking for nawk... nawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking build system type... i386-pc-solaris2.11
checking host system type... i386-pc-solaris2.11
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for egrep... egrep
checking for AIX... no
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking minix/config.h usability... no
checking minix/config.h presence... no
checking for minix/config.h... no
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for special C compiler options needed for large files... no
checking for FILEOFFSET_BITS value needed for large files... 64
checking for LARGEFILES value needed for large files... no
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for function prototypes... yes
checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes
checking for string.h... (cached) yes
checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
checking for inline... inline
checking whether the printf family of functions supports %'ld... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for gawk... (cached) nawk
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/ginstall -c
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes
checking for dirent.h that defines DIR... yes
checking for library containing opendir... none required
checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes
checking for sys/wait.h that is POSIX.1 compatible... yes
checking fcntl.h usability... yes
checking fcntl.h presence... yes
checking for fcntl.h... yes
checking libutil.h usability... no
checking libutil.h presence... no
checking for libutil.h... no
checking limits.h usability... yes
checking limits.h presence... yes
checking for limits.h... yes
checking malloc.h usability... yes
checking malloc.h presence... yes
checking for malloc.h... yes
checking pty.h usability... no
checking pty.h presence... no
checking for pty.h... no
checking for strings.h... (cached) yes
checking sys/ioctl.h usability... yes
checking sys/ioctl.h presence... yes
checking for sys/ioctl.h... yes
checking sys/time.h usability... yes
checking sys/time.h presence... yes
checking for sys/time.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking for stdint.h... (cached) yes
checking sys/mkdev.h usability... yes
checking sys/mkdev.h presence... yes
checking for sys/mkdev.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... (cached) yes
checking for socklen_t in sys/socket.h... yes
checking for mode_t... yes
checking for intptr_t in stdint.h... yes
checking for pid_t... yes
checking for size_t... yes
checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes
checking whether struct tm is in sys/time.h or time.h... time.h
checking for off_t... yes
checking size of off_t... 8
checking for working alloca.h... yes
checking for alloca... yes
checking whether gcc needs -traditional... no
checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking for getpagesize... yes
checking for working mmap... yes
checking return type of signal handlers... void
checking for strftime... yes
checking whether utime accepts a null argument... yes
checking for gai_strerror... no
checking for getaddrinfo... no
checking for getcwd... yes
checking for gettimeofday... yes
checking for getwd... yes
checking for mkdir... yes
checking for mktime... yes
checking for putenv... yes
checking for rmdir... yes
checking for select... yes
checking for socket... no
checking for strdup... yes
checking for strstr... yes
checking for strtod... yes
checking for strtol... yes
checking for uname... yes
checking for grantpt... yes
checking for openpty... no
checking for getdtablesize... yes
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for glib-2.0 >= 2.0.0... yes
checking GLIB_CFLAGS... -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include
checking GLIB_LIBS... -lglib-2.0
checking for openpty in -lutil... no
checking for socket in -lsocket... yes
checking for gethostbyname in -lnsl... yes
checking whether to use readline... yes
checking for readline in -lreadline... no
checking for readline in -lreadline... no
checking for readline in -lreadline... no
checking for readline in -lreadline... no
checking for log10 in -lm... yes
checking if malloc debugging is wanted... no
checking for gtk+-2.0 >= 2.0.0... configure: error: You have GLIB 2.0 installed but I cannot find GTK+ 2.0. Run configure with --disable-gtk20 or install GTK+ 2.0
jhawk@solaris-devx gftp-2.0.18rc1 >

GIMP on Solaris Express CD Set

Hello Ladies and Gentlemen,
I want to run newer version of GIMP preferably at least 2.4. My current Solaris version is Solaris 10, Jan 2005 version. I ordered Solaris Express 11 x86 core and, 6 CD set since I was not looking forward to download free GTK libs to set up a local build environment for GIMP since it would take at least an entire day to get GIMP working using my dial up modem.
I have several questions about Solaris Express 11x86 OS/Application Set
1. Does it still use familiar GRUB 0.9X as boot loader? I am not familiar with GRUB 2.x
2. Would my old Star Office 8 install on Solaris Express 11x86 OS
3. Would the new version of GIMP comes with Solaris Express 11x86 would install on old
Solaris 10 of January 2005 version?
4. Since Graphics and Audio editing programmes runs better when swap and /tmp slices on the
second physical disk. Can I at least make Solaris 10 and Solaris Express share these
spaces ? I give 12GB for /usr 16GB for /opt and 4GB for / and 16GB for /export/home on
one primary partition on fist disk and /tmp and swap on another 4 GB primary partition on the
second disk.
I would appreciate yourkind advice and time.
Pinecloud
Dell Dimension
Intel Dual Core 3GHz
2GB Memory
SATA II Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GB x 2
Philips DVD/CD Writer
nvidia GE Force 6600GT
Sound Blaster Audigy emu 10K1
3M USB Dial-up Modem

Hi,
I think that you should take a look on [http://www.blastwave.org|blastwave.org] and search for pkg-get utility. It's similar to apt-get (solve dependencies). And I believe they should have a newer version of gimp. I have been using this repository a lot when I was using Solaris 10.
It won't mess up your old libs &etc. Everything is installed into /opt/csw.
HTH
Best regards
Lubos Kocman
[email protected]
Edited by: setuid.h on 11.1.2009 12:41

User's profile in Solaris Express Developper Edition

I was just wondering, where is the ".profile" in Solaris Epress DE located.
In Solaris 10 it's just located in the user's local directory.
In other words how can I edit a user's profile in Solaris Express?

You should probably direct SXDE queries to the forums at http://opensolaris.org, more chance of a response from the JDS developers there.
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calum

Solaris Express installation experience

Hi folk,
I want to add to my previous post about not getting the graphical installer to work at all due to the notorious
nVidia bug in Xorg.
I have now tried the console install thats supplied as a backup method in Express.
I got through all the sections, installed everything and then got an error that it could not install
the boot blocks, and attempting to boot gives a Bad PBR error.
My first attempt at installing in this manner was to have a drive split between Windows and Solaris, and with this error, I thought.. OK, I'll dedicate the entire drive to Solaris and try installing again.. this i did, but the same error
continued to haunt me.
No matter what I did, it cannot install to the boot block and thus renders Solaris Express useless to me.
system specs:
AMD64 on nForce4 Ultra motherboard
2 Gigs physical DDR400 memory
256MB Legend GeForce 6800GS Video
1x IDE 320GB Seagate Harddrive ( This was to be the Solaris drive, and is first on the list in BIOS )
1x SATA 180GB Hitachi Harddrive ( Windows XP Pro boot drive )
1x SATA 250GB Hitachi Harddrive
If there is any more information that I can give that may help, please dont hesitate to ask.

I found some time ago this:
http://www.webservertalk.com/message1607925.html
and this:
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=29846
Maybe they'll be helpful.
Rev

Solaris Express Zone install error with SUNWiiimr and SUNWcnetr

Hi all,
I got these errors when installing a new zone on a Solaris Express 1/08 (5.11) on a x64 box:
Installation of these packages generated errors: SUNWiiimr
Installation of these packages generated warnings: SUNWcnetr
The zone creation log shows:
*** package -SUNWiiimr- failed to install with fatal errors:
/export/zones/newzone/root/var/sadm/pkg/SUNWiiimr/install/postin stall: /export/zones/newzone/root/lib/postrun: not found
/export/zones/newzone/root/var/sadm/pkg/SUNWiiimr/install/postinstall: /export/zones/newzone/root/lib/postrun: not found
pkgadd: ERROR: postinstall script did not complete successfully
Installation of -SUNWiiimr- on zone -newzone- failed.
*** package -SUNWcnetr- installed with warnings:
pkgadd: ERROR: unable to create package object -/export/zones/newzone/root/etc/dladm-.
owner name -dladm- not found in passwd table(s)
ERROR: attribute verification of -/export/zones/newzone/root/etc/dladm/aggregation.conf- failed
owner name -dladm- not found in passwd table(s)
ERROR: attribute verification of -/export/zones/newzone/root/etc/dladm/linkprop.conf- failed
owner name -dladm- not found in passwd table(s)
ERROR: attribute verification of -/export/zones/newzone/root/etc/dladm/secobj.conf- failed
owner name -dladm- not found in passwd table(s)
Installation of -SUNWcnetr- on zone -newzone- partially failed.
-newzone- was configured to be a whole root zone. Are there any ways to solve these installation errors?
Thanks in advance.

This problem seems some strange - this time with Solaris 10u4, from 10 containers installed on a brand new X2200 (2x cpu) only one do not output those errors, but just this one cannot install the dsee or proxy. This time the errors were from:
Installation of <SUNWxwplr> on zone <dsee-proxy> partially failed.
Installation of <SUNWdtdmr> on zone <dsee-proxy> partially failed.
Installation of <SUNWmconr> on zone <dsee-proxy> partially failed.
Installation of <SUNWrmwbr> on zone <dsee-proxy> partially failed.
Installation of <SUNWlvmr> on zone <dsee-proxy> partially failed.
Installation of <SUNWzebrar> on zone <dsee-proxy> partially failed.
So the machine was, too, just installed. After several hours, anoter atempt to install a zone, this time just this one, returned no errors - and the dsee installed without any complains. All configurations were for whole root zones. Used was Solaris 10u4 with the most recent patch cluster applied.

Solaris Express 7/05 panic on first boot

Hi all,
I get a panic on my newly installed Solaris Express 7/05:
Booting from grub with multiboot -k -v
(btw, is there a way to log these errors?)
PCI-device: ide@0,ata0
ata0 is /pci@0,0/pci-ide@11,1/ide@0/cmdk@0,0
UltraDMA mode 5 selected
UltraDMA mode 5 selected
cmdk0 at ata0 target 0 lun 0
cmdk0 is /pci@0,0/pci-ide@11,1/ide@0/cmdk@0,0
/kernel/misc/strplumb: undefined symbol 'dl_attach'
/kernel/misc/strplumb: undefined symbol 'dl_phys_addr'
/kernel/misc/strplumb: undefined symbol 'octet_to_hexascii'
/kernel/misc/strplumb: undefined symbol 'dl_bind'
WARNING: mod_load: cannot load module 'strplumb'
WARNING: strplumb: unable to resolve dependency, module 'misc/nfs_dlboot' not found
panic[cpu00]thread=fec1d920: mod_hold_stub: Couldn't load stub module misc/strplumb
fec33c88 geunix:mod_hold_stub+139 (fec0472c, 1, fe8d96)
fec33ca4 unix:stubs_common_code+9 ()
panic: entering debugger (no dump device, continue to reboot)
Welcome to kmdb
[0]>
System specs:
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 1900+
RAM: 1.3g
MB: ASUS A7V333
DISK: 2x Seagate Barracuda 7200.7, 160GB, 8mb cache (UDMA 5)
I can boot with Failsafe, but no multiboot.
What can I do?

Apparently the nfs client module is need for some reason I don't understand (I'm doing a local CD install). Since I installed the SUNWCrnet cluster this kernel module didn't install.
I resolved this by manually installing the SUNWnfsckr from failsafe mode..

Solaris Express Developer x86 -- only 64-bit?

Hi, people, glad to be back. Just downloaded Solaris Express Developer edition x86 and installed -- almost with no problems.
It's a system with Intel Celeron D with 64-bit and Hyper Threading support, DDR2 1Gb.
Now running Solaris I noticed it's a 64-bit version, not 32-bit, as I meant to have. The command `isainfo -n` gives back ... "amd64"!
Is there a 32-bit version of Solaris Express DE x86?
Or maybe I need not worry at all and keep running the 64-bit one (actually, I've got no problem as yet)?
Thanks in advance for any comments.

So, my system supports 64-bit computing after all. I
never thought about it, in fact.
But does it mean Solaris Express DE x86 runs as
64-bit on the systems supporting 64-bit, and as
32-bit on 32-bit-only systems?Yes, that's correct. Solaris 10 was the first version of Solaris to support 64 bit operation on the x86 architecture.
It and later versions (including Solaris Express DE x86) should automatically detect the architecture and run in that mode at boot time. There are some ways to force it to run in 32 bit mode only if necessary, but that would be unusual.
Darren

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