Re: Migration from unstable to testing.

[Chris Wakefield <c_wakefield@shaw.ca>]

Ron Johnson wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 18:17 +0000, Chris Wakefield wrote:
>  
>
> > Greetings all:
> >
> > I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the developers and 
> > people involved in porting Debian Linux to amd64.  Debian is my favorite 
> > Distribution and it's so great to finally be able to run in 64 bit mode!
> > I have been reading most of the posts, since the beginning of this year, 
> > and I could see that it has been a lot of work and stress for you all.
> >
> > Thank You !!!
> >
> > My only concern at this point is:  when Debian-amd64 finally makes it 
> > into testing, how likely would a migration from unstable to testing 
> > succeed? ... and would it be as simple as editing the sources.list and 
> > _not_ involve pinning?  (<-- not to be confused with my "pining" for 
> > Debian-amd64!) or should I wait and do a reinstall to avoid the possible 
> > difficulties?
> >    
>
> You're already running pure-amd64?
>
>  
Hi Ron

Well, I may have embarassed myself, but I assumed that installing from:

 http://debian.inode.at/pure64/

with the

 
http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/install-images/sid-amd64-monolithic.iso

image, and that:

 deb http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pure64 sid main contrib non-free

is listed in my sources.list, that it would be a pure64?

I have noticed that in the .config file of:  vmlinuz-2.6.7-5-amd64-xeon

has this:

 CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION=y

Maybe I'm mistaken?  Please inform me if I am.

Thanks,

Chris W.