Hi!
I've been using sid for amd64 on my production machine since before it became an official debian port, but for the next few years I will have 0 time for fixing stuff that might break, and so I'm gonna use stable instead, starting with etch. Ideally I should make the move in the next few days, and I would very much appreciate some advice:
* If I install testing today and change apt sources to stable when etch is done (and do 'aptitude dist-upgrade'), will I have the same installation as I would have if I had waited to do a clean stable install?
* I'm considering the i386 port instead of amd64, since i need to use wine and possibly some aliened 32-bit applications and don't want to bother with a chroot environment. Are there any stability issues using the i386 port with an amd64
processor, and will there be much lost in the way of performance?
* I'm still learning about raid. I have two disks that I can use for / and /home in raid-1, but what should I do with swap? Is there a point/performance loss in putting swap on a raid device? I have a third disk where I could put the swap partition.
I'm using an Athlon X2 3800 processor, 4G ram and an Abit KN8-Ultra nForce4 motherboard.
Please help!
/landhaj