-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 - -- Registerd Linux user #443289 at http://counter.li.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGAm15iXBCVWpc5J4RAo+WAKCbxniB0+xSHV3RV1zWuK2NGc5mKgCdF5lA JBUxGfyxpelyYxjm9p4bR0U= =COB+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
