Hello everybody, when I got my new Dell Latitude D830 (1 GB RAM, Intel Core 2 Duo T7250) a few months ago, I installed the 32-bit version of Debian-Lenny (kernel and userland i386-architecture).
A few weeks ago I upgraded the laptop with 3 GB RAM, so now it has a total of 4 GB RAM. Under the i386 kernel the command free shows about 3.5 GB available memory, so I lost about 0.5 GB RAM due to the i386 architecture. Therefore I installed the amd64 kernel, which is part of the i386 distribution. Now free shows 4048 MB available memory. So, now I have a completely i386 userland and an amd64 kernel. In order to build a customized new amd64 kernel I guess, I'll need some 64-bit libraries for the building process, because as I said: my system is (with the exception of the kernel) completey i386, that is it has only 32-bit libraries. Now my questions: Is it possible, to build an amd64 kernel inside an i386 system (with 32-bit libraries)? If yes, what additional packages do I have to install? Are they available inside the i386 distribution or do I have to download those from the amd64 distribution? I appreciate all hints and replies. Dieter -- Every mail not from this mailing list will be deleted. Please post your answers only to this mailing list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
