Re: Why does dpkg think my pentium computer is an AMD?

[Peter Stoddard <peter@stoddard.name>]

On Monday 27 March 2006 12:21 pm , Steve Garcia wrote:
> If you don't have specific needs from your kernel (so it has to be
> custom built) there are kernel-image packages already available from
> Debian.  What you probably want is kernel-image-2.6.15-1-em64t-p4-smp
> That's the one that is optimized for the Intel 64 bit processor that you
> have. You'll still have an amd64 architecture, but the kernel will be
> optimized for your particular processor.

Sounds like a good deal Steve.  I'll give it a try.  Thanks for the advice.

Pete