On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 20:07 +1100, paul.szabo@sydney.edu.au wrote: > Dear Ben, > > Thanks for the repeated explanations. > > > PAE was a stop-gap ... > > ... [PAE] completely untenable. > > Is this a good time to withdraw PAE, to tell the world that it does not > work? Maybe you should have had such comments in the code. > > Seems that amd64 now works "somewhat": on Debian the linux-image package > is tricky to install, If you do an i386 (userland) installation then you must either select expert mode to get a choice of kernel packages, or else install the 'amd64' kernel package afterward. > and linux-headers is even harder. In what way? > Is there work being done to make this smoother? [...] Debian users are now generally installing a full amd64 (userland and kernel installation. The default installation image linked from www.debian.org is the 32/64-bit net-installer which will install amd64 if the system is capable of it. Based on your experience I might propose to change the automatic kernel selection for i386 so that we use 'amd64' on a system with >16GB RAM and a capable processor. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If more than one person is responsible for a bug, no one is at fault.
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