Question about AMD64 and 64 bit installation

Hall family cogyfarm at grm.net
Sun Nov 27 19:26:17 UTC 2005


I don't know where you see "k8" but there is no k8 in the standard
breezy repositorys

Troy
On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 11:15 +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
> On Fr, 2005-11-25 at 03:34 -0600, Hall family wrote:
> > as the informational section on the amd packages explain, you should
> > either use the K7 package ( handles future updates the best ) or k7-smp.
> > I'm running an AMD 64 Semperon 2800 with the latest linux-k7 package
> > ( it will automatically choose the extra restricted modules ) and it
> > works great!
> thats impressing,since k7 is specifically for the 32bit amd processors,
> rather use the -k8 (64bit) or the -i386 (32bit) kernel :)
> 
> ciao
> 	oli





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