On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 04:24:01PM +0200, steef wrote:
hello list,
bought myself a new asus_nvidia_mainboard and a amd sempron 3200+ 64 bits processor. for thew first time i will use a 64 bits debian_os.
my question: will this new 64 bits_cpu start up on a 32 bits standard sarge distro; kernel 2.6.8 etc. ??
yes, the amd64/emt64/x86_64 cpus are fully IA32 compatible.
there could,however, be a problem with things like onboard ethernet
and/or SATA controller(s) (don't know about sound) ... to fully use
that, you might need a newer kernel
yours
Albert