On 10/27/07, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
I thought that was the case, but I wasn't 100% sure. > > > > 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 :-). Oh, well, yeah, if you have out-of-source modules, that will cause some issues. I knew that, but didn't remember to mention it, because I don't use those kind of modules myself. Thank for catching that. Cheers, Kelly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
