On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 08:53:20PM +0000, Chris Wakefield wrote: > 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? A while ago I downgraded a machine from unstable to woody (testing at the time, I think). I think apt took some convincing before it would do it, though. It is possible, but you should find a howto or something for some pointers on how to go about it. Unless you're happy to remove unstable repositories from your sources.list and wait for testing to catch up, which could take a long time for some packages, in which case it's easy. > >>... 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? It's not too hard. I had a lot less experience with Debian than I do now when I did it. But apt doesn't automatically downgrade. > I have noticed that in the .config file of: vmlinuz-2.6.7-5-amd64-xeon If you're running an Opteron, you might want to run an Opteron kernel, instead of the Xeon flavour. I think someone said the Xeon doesn't have an IOMMU, and that kernel doesn't try to use it. You do have a 64bit system, though. > > has this: > > CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION=y That lets you run 32bit code too, e.g. statically linked or in a chroot. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X(peter@cor , des.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BC
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