On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 02:46:05PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > I just upgraded my old Intel P4 system with a 3Ghz multithread (2 > processors?) processor and 4 GB ram. I am running Debian Wheezy with > a KDE desktop. My present kernel is Linux-3.8-1=686-pae. From > reading, I think I need to change the kernel to the bigmem version > but all of the packages shown are for much older versions (or they > seem to be). If I install the linux-image-686-bigmem dummy package > will it automatically pick the latest kernel version or not? If not > what do I do?
Yes, it will. For what it's worth, I've found that moving to cheap modern systems is usually worth the motherboard + CPU cost because DDR3 RAM is so cheap. -dsr- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
