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Re: Sarge and Athlon 64



On Tuesday, 11.07.2006 at 02:02 -0700, michael bailey wrote:

>  I am interested in obtaining a new motherboard and 
>  CPU. The current CPU is a Pentium III and runs Debian
> Sarge (kernel 2.4.27-3-686). I am thinking of getting
> an Athlon 64 as the new CPU. 
> 
>  Does anyone please know what updates would be needed
> to the current kernel in order to use the Athlon 64 ?
> I would obviously like to still use all my current 32
> bit software and data.

The simplest option is to just install a 2.6.x-series amd64 kernel and
keep your 32-bit system.  Unless you "need" the extra facilities which
64-bit systems give you, you will find the whole setup much simpler just
doing this.  No faffing about with chroots either :-)

Dave.
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