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Re: Help with initial setup



On Sunday 06 February 2005 19:07, Dustin N.Jenkins wrote:
>  I've just put together my Gigabyte K8NS Ultra-939 board with AMD64
> 3000+ CPU.  I've used Debian for years and really, really like it.  I
> MUCH prefer doing a clean install rather than installing from, say,
> Knoppix so as to keep it as clean as possible.  Having said that, this
> is my first 64-bit machine, and it's currently running the latest
> Debian 3.1 (Unstable) and seems fine.  I've gone through the pure64
> documentation, but I can't really piece together whether I need to
> reinstall using the pure64 distro, or if I can just add the suggested
> entries into my sources.list and be done with it.  Can anyone advise
> me?

AFAIK, if you're switching arch's, you have to do a clean install. (I read it 
somewhere some time ago, could probably dig it up from the archives, but 
maybe it's enough for you to just trust me saving me or someone else some 
work ;-)

> Dustin

Cheers!

sebas
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