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Re: Fresh Install Problems



On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 07:49:21PM -0600, smugzilla wrote:
> That brings me to my next question: why are the kernel naming 
> conventions inconsistent? uname -r says I am currently running 
> 2.6.8-em64t-p4-smp but no corresponding version of kernel 2.6.18 is 
> available from Arizona's sid repository. They do have a version for 
> amd64, which is what I would have thought I needed, but now I'm 
> confused. What kernel flavor am I looking for, assuming that my CPU is 
> an old Athlon 64?

There used to be packages for different amd64 flavours: amd64-generic,
amd64-k8, amd64-k8-smp, em64t-p4, em64t-p4-smp. 

Now there is simply amd64, which combines all of them, including smp.

(I don't know what purpose amd64-generic survived, since both flavours
(amd64-k8, em64t-p4) were covered by exact matches. But it's gone now.)

So you simply want 2.6.18-3-amd64.

Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>



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