On Thursday 27 July 2006 10:43, Bill Ranck wrote: > Hello folks, > I am new to the 64 bit stuff and I need to rebuild my kernel for > multiple processors. I know I should apt-get the source packages, but > which packages and from where? My /etc/apt/sources.list has the > following: > deb http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian-amd64/debian sarge main contrib > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main > > I have installed am running this on a Dell 2650 with Intel > processors. Here is the uname -a line: > Linux ripberger 2.6.12-1-amd64-generic #1 Fri Jul 22 18:12:08 CEST 2005 > x86_64 GNU/Linux > > I assume that I just need to download the kernel sources, do the > "make menuconfig" thing and make the new kernel from there. Any other > cautions or suggestions? You can install a Debian kernel with smp support use "apt-cache search kernel-image smp" without the quotes to see the available images for install you would want one of the ones with em64t in the name. Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc
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