On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 06:51:20PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 07:49:21PM -0600, smugzilla wrote: > > That brings me to my next question: why are the kernel naming > > conventions inconsistent? uname -r says I am currently running > > 2.6.8-em64t-p4-smp but no corresponding version of kernel 2.6.18 is > > available from Arizona's sid repository. They do have a version for > > amd64, which is what I would have thought I needed, but now I'm > > confused. What kernel flavor am I looking for, assuming that my CPU is > > an old Athlon 64? > > There used to be packages for different amd64 flavours: amd64-generic, > amd64-k8, amd64-k8-smp, em64t-p4, em64t-p4-smp. > > Now there is simply amd64, which combines all of them, including smp. > > (I don't know what purpose amd64-generic survived, since both flavours > (amd64-k8, em64t-p4) were covered by exact matches. But it's gone now.)
It was useful if you didn't know which amd64 you had :-) -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
