Re: basic install question

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Jul 13, 2010, at 6:41 AM, PaulStapp () plant lubbockisd org wrote:

> I'm embarrassed to ask such a basic question, but when installing for the first time, Wireshark recognizes my Windows 
> Server 2003 64-bit OS as XP Pro.

Are you saying the *installer* said your machine was running XP Pro, or that *Wireshark itself* said it was running XP 
Pro?  You said "should I continue the install?", so I'm guessing you meant the *installer* said your machine was 
running XP Pro.

When I ran the installer for the 32-bit version of Wireshark 1.2.9 on my 32-bit XP Pro (virtual) machine just now, the 
Wireshark installer didn't say anything about the version of the OS; however, it ran the WinPcap installer, which did.

You're installing the 64-bit version of Wireshark, right?  I don't know whether the 32-bit installer always attempts to 
install a 32-bit version of WinPcap; if it does, you can't use the 32-bit version of Wireshark on 64-bit Windows, as 
WinPcap includes kernel-mode (driver) code, and you can't run 32-bit kernel code on a 64-bit OS (or vice versa).
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