During a recent discussion on i386 V AMD64 linux a number of people said 
stay away from Physical Address Extension PAE kernels, althougth no 
reasons/evidence was given to back up the warning, What is the problem with 
PAE. A search on the net showed no major problems ascociated with this 
extension apart from the obvious limited amount of memory avaible for a 
single process.
As stated I have run PAE kernels now for some time with no problems what so 
ever. 

On Debian AMD64 I have managed to get wine running but as yet I cannot 
compile wine itself, the build complaining of no 32 bit compiler (which is 
correct). Sadly Debian sid will not let me install one without removing 
alot of packages including xorg, this certainly not what I want. 

A search on the net came up with a good bit of info on both running and 
compiling wine on Debian AMD64 unfortunately none of it was recent and some 
of the info conflicked. 

So I am going to have a crack at Debian 7.0.0 i386 which I have a set of 
DVD's for, having obtained them "just in case" . 

If its required re intallation of Sid is a non issue with apt-move and 
saving the package selections. Although there's one minor gripe apt-move 
will store the AMD64 packages OK but will not handle the i386 items (on the 
system for wine). The actual amount of data invloved is only around 100meg 
so its not a real major issue. 

Lindsay
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