Re: Installation advice needed for a really stable desktop machine
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Land Haj wrote:
> 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?
Just make it says etch in your /etc/apt/soures.list and you won't have
to worry. The current etch installer does that by default.
> * 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?
>
The 32-bit version works fine on amd64 machines. AMD64 can run 32-bit
programs just fine. Depending on what you do with the computer, some
things can be a bit slower (number crunching programs), but not
significantly so.
> * 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.
>
With 4 GB of RAM, you probably don't need a swap at all. Since you have
a duel core machine, make sure you use an smp kernel. Everything should
work fine and you'll have a fine system that I and others can be jealous
over.
Joe
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