On Thursday 27 July 2006 11:37, Jaime Ochoa Malagón wrote: > On 7/27/06, Stephen Cormier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 27 July 2006 10:43, Bill Ranck wrote: > > > Hello folks, > > > I am new to the 64 bit stuff and I need to rebuild my kernel for > > > multiple processors. I know I should apt-get the source packages, but > > > which packages and from where? My /etc/apt/sources.list has the > > > following: > > > deb http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian-amd64/debian sarge main contrib > > > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main > > > > > > I have installed am running this on a Dell 2650 with Intel > > > processors. Here is the uname -a line: > > > Linux ripberger 2.6.12-1-amd64-generic #1 Fri Jul 22 18:12:08 CEST 2005 > > > x86_64 GNU/Linux > > > > > > I assume that I just need to download the kernel sources, do the > > > "make menuconfig" thing and make the new kernel from there. Any other > > > cautions or suggestions? > > > > You can install a Debian kernel with smp support use "apt-cache search > > kernel-image smp" without the quotes to see the available images for > > install you would want one of the ones with em64t in the name. > > I belive should be linux-image instead of kernel-image or this is > false to sarge? > sorry if thats the case I have only sid...
As I recall it the change to linux-image happened after the Sarge release,
actually just checked my install kernel is still named the old way.
apt-cache policy kernel-image-2.6.8-11-amd64-generic
kernel-image-2.6.8-11-amd64-generic:
Installed: 2.6.8-14
Candidate: 2.6.8-14
Version table:
*** 2.6.8-14 0
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
BTW no need to CC me I read this list, thanks.
Stephen
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