Hi, Many thanks for your quick reply.
On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 16:24:27 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alice Stamping <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I would like to use some AMD Opteron kit in production with Debian. I > > don't, therefore, fancy tracking unstable with these boxes. :) > > I want to track sarge with these computers. Is it possible to : > > - install Debian Sarge from the i386 iso > yes Good. > > - using make-kpkg build a 64-bit kernel on the newly installed box > > for the AMD 64 bit platform. > Not comfortably. > apt-get install kernel-image-2.6-amd64-<tab> > kernel-image-2.6-amd64-generic kernel-image-2.6-amd64-k8-smp > kernel-image-2.6-amd64-k8 kernel-image-2.6-amd64-xeon Less work for me if someone at Debian was kind enough to make a kernel already. :) > > - build the packages we normally build from source from sources after > > booting into the 64 bit kernel (e.g. apache/php) > That needs all the build-depends too. A lot of building and all of it > not prepared for in a 32bit userland. It's possible but a lot of work. Of course (I was planning to take a --get-selections from the current Xeon doing the job, taking my own packages out, then running a --set-selections on the new Opteron kit - that way I'll get the build-deps, but of course they wont be 64-bit - that small matter had escaped me.) If I just used a 64 bit kernel, and kept the rest of the system tracking 32-bit packages, would I still see stronger performance than an equivilently specced Xeon system? Your help is very much appreciated. BR ALICE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
