Re: Fresh Install Problems
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 06:51:20PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> 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.)
It was useful if you didn't know which amd64 you had :-)
-- hendrik
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