hi my old PC at office is , well, old (it is an AthlonXP 1600, but it supports 2 users and 2 webservers at the same time...); I will be probably buy a new CPU, M/B, RAM ; my current idea is to buy an AMD Athlon64 3000 socket 939 (and Asus A89 M/B). I would need to know these facts, though: 0) when I buy a new CPU-M/B-RAM, I usually enjoy to mount them in my old case, connect all cards and drives, and reboot the system (this is one of the feats where Debian rules and Win*s sucks - after my last upgrade at home, I was never able to boot into Win*s again). Is this possible when switching to Athlon64 ? Does it boot an install of Debian for i386? 1) googling thru the list I read that in the past it was not possible to upgrade from the i386 to amd64 and that people need to reinstall. What is the current situation ? Is there any simpler way (=tweak) to start using amd64 packages (for example, can I install the kernel for amd64 into the i386 Debian ? (AFAI understand this is called "multiarch" and is a goal for etch, so maybe it is too early). thanks in advance for all the help a. ps: I am a DD , so if I buy this Athlon64, I will join the porting effort... ps2 : yes the above question 1 seems a bit confused ... indeed I am confused by this fact that Athlon64 runs 32 bit code ... I googled around but still did not understand this fact completly -- Andrea Mennucc "E' un mondo difficile. Che vita intensa!" (Tonino Carotone)
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