Kelly Clowers wrote: > The cpuid program should be able to tell you if you have a 32 bit > Sempron or a 64 bit Sempron. Even if you have a Sempron64, I > am not sure if you can/should run a 64 bit kernel while using > Debian's i386 arch.
No, you need to use a complete 64bit userland for using amd64, translation: You have to reinstall your machine. > > In any case, the the k7 kernel will be better than the 486. > >> And, when I am ready to upgrade, do I just run an apt-get install >> linux-image-2.6.22-2-*? > > Yes, but you may want to install the k7 meta-package, which > always depends on a recent k7 kernel, so you don't have to > manually update your kernel image. Just install linux-image-k7 > and it will do the rest. Well, if you have modules compiled against your actual kernel and in a full-upgrade magically upgrades your kernel you're gonna live a nightmare next time you reboot your machine. But if you don't build specific modules to your kernel then go ahead :-). Regards, Jose Luis. -- ghostbar on debian linux 'sid' 2.6.22 x86_64-SMP - #382503 Weblog: http://ghostbar.ath.cx/ - http://linuxtachira.org http://debian.org.ve - irc.debian.org #debian-ve #debian-devel-es San Cristóbal, Venezuela. http://chaslug.org.ve GPG: 0xCACAB118
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