Re: New Opteron Installation

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Pär Ekstrand <pe@mech.kth.se> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I have bought an Opteron system with the following,
> 
> Tyan Thunder K8W Motherboard
> 2 x AMD Opteron 242
> 4 x 1Gb DIMM DDR 333MHz Reg ECC
> 2 x MAXTOR DIAMONDMAX PLUS-9 ATA/133 Disks
> A Simple PCI Grafic Card
> 
> I have intstalled Sarge, with 2.4.22-1-386 kernel today.
> 
> I would like to try to install a 64 bit Kernel and a 32/64 chroot
> environment.
> 
> 
> Is this an updated way to do it ?
> https://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/1314/21/debian-amd64-howto.html
> Should a I use the 2.6.0 kernel ?
> 
> And get things from
> http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/
> 
> Best Regards
> Pär Ekstrand
> Department of Mechnics
> KTH/Stockholm

Yes. But there is a bug in 2.6.0-test11 leading to FS corruption iirc
with a patch for it. If you use 2.6 look out for that.

MfG
        Goswin