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Re: Fresh Install Problems



On Sun January 21 2007 17:49, smugzilla wrote:

> That brings me to my next question: why are the kernel naming
> conventions inconsistent? uname -r says I am currently running
> 2.6.8-em64t-p4-smp but no corresponding version of kernel 2.6.18 is
> available from Arizona's sid repository. They do have a version for
> amd64, which is what I would have thought I needed, but now I'm
> confused. What kernel flavor am I looking for, assuming that my CPU is
> an old Athlon 64?

I have linux-image-2.6.amd64 and linux-image-2.6.18-3-amd64 installed on my 
Athlon64. I think the em64t is for an intel 64 cpu, I don't know that for 
sure since I don't have one of those.

I'm running etch but I think the linux-images in etch are the same as sid ATM.



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