On Wednesday 31 May 2006 18:08, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 05:08:35PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
Hi Adam:
I extrapolate your indications to my case (hope to the benefit of others
too) of installed debian 64 testing from etch beta 2 release, choosing
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 08:32:52AM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
I am very sorry for having bothered Len and the audience with a number of
faulty e-mails.
This morning 1st June, with sources.list:
deb http://secure-testing.debian.net/debian-secure-testing
etch/security-updates contrib
On Thursday 01 June 2006 15:18, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 08:32:52AM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
I am very sorry for having bothered Len and the audience with a number of
faulty e-mails.
This morning 1st June, with sources.list:
deb
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 16:08, Francesco Pietra wrote:
Hi Adam:
I extrapolate your indications to my case (hope to the benefit of others
too) of installed debian 64 testing from etch beta 2 release, choosing
linux-image-2.6.15-1-amd64-generic.
Hardware: TWO 264 amd64-opteron on Tyan K8WE
On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, A J Stiles wrote:
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 16:08, Francesco Pietra wrote:
As Len has pointed out, you do need to watch out for security patches with
home-made kernels. If one does come out that demands your attention, then
you'll have to patch your sources and re-compile.
helices wrote:
Now that my new hp xw9300, dual opteron system is up and running, I give
thanks to all of you who have steered me in the right direction.
Thank you.
Now, I have this kernel booting:
# uname -a
Linux odin 2.6.15-1-amd64-generic #2 Mon Mar 20 10:43:41 UTC 2006 x86_64
* Jo Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006:05:31:14:00:04+0100] scribed:
helices wrote:
Now that my new hp xw9300, dual opteron system is up and running, I give
thanks to all of you who have steered me in the right direction.
Thank you.
Now, I have this kernel booting:
# uname -a
helices wrote:
* Jo Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006:05:31:14:00:04+0100] scribed:
helices wrote:
Now that my new hp xw9300, dual opteron system is up and running, I give
thanks to all of you who have steered me in the right direction.
Thank you.
Now, I have this kernel booting:
#
* Jo Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006:05:31:14:12:17+0100] scribed:
snip /
Thank you, for your participation in these matters.
I recommend application of common sense.
Please, be patient with me.
I am trying to get my brain around this whole amd64 thing. This is not
immediately intuitive to
helices wrote:
* Jo Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006:05:31:14:12:17+0100] scribed:
snip /
Thank you, for your participation in these matters.
I recommend application of common sense.
Please, be patient with me.
I am trying to get my brain around this whole amd64 thing. This is not
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 14:06, helices wrote:
WHICH kernel will make best use of my system?
Of those listed, kernel-image-2.6.8-12-amd64-k8-smp. But you probably
don't want any of those listed.
snip /
OK, I'll bite. WHICH kernel do you recommend? WHY?
The best kernel for your
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 03:17:08PM +0100, Adam Stiles wrote:
The best kernel for your system is always one you have compiled yourself.
I think that's a load of crap. The majority of systems work perfectly
with one of the debian provided kernels.
Get yourself some kernel sources from
* Lennart Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006:05:31:11:37:10-0400] scribed:
snip /
If you go to kernel.org then security updates become your problem to
track, while if you use the debian kernels, debian will track them for
you and patch in the fixes. This saves an awful lot of trouble for most
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 03:17:08PM +0100, Adam Stiles wrote:
The best kernel for your system is always one you have
compiled yourself.
I think that's a load of crap. The majority of systems work perfectly
with one of the debian provided kernels.
I agree, mostly. If you use a packaged
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 10:57:24AM -0500, helices wrote:
This IS an issue for me. I will not track this manually; but, I will
follow apt recommendations.
So, how is this tracked for kernels at backports.org?
The maintainers of backports.org will _hopefully_ be tracking whichever
debian
Hi Adam:
I extrapolate your indications to my case (hope to the benefit of others too)
of installed debian 64 testing from etch beta 2 release, choosing
linux-image-2.6.15-1-amd64-generic.
Hardware: TWO 264 amd64-opteron on Tyan K8WE 2895 plus video card and scsi
card for external scsi chain
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 05:08:35PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
Hi Adam:
I extrapolate your indications to my case (hope to the benefit of others too)
of installed debian 64 testing from etch beta 2 release, choosing
linux-image-2.6.15-1-amd64-generic.
Hardware: TWO 264 amd64-opteron
Thank you, for your participation in these matters.
* Lennart Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006:05:31:12:04:30-0400] scribed:
snip /
If you were to simply run etch (which for amd64 would be the lowest
version to officially be debian), then it would have the new kernels
from security.debian.org
Hi Len:
I went on immediately with your suggestion about the kernel, however, with my
present /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main
deb ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free
(the equivalent deb-src are commented)
command
#apt-get
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 06:05:20PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
Hi Len:
I went on immediately with your suggestion about the kernel, however, with my
present /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main
deb ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 11:20:30AM -0500, helices wrote:
I thought that I AM following etch ?!?!
I used this to install:
debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso
When that was done, my sources.list was this:
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot amd64
* Lennart Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006:05:31:13:15:19-0400] scribed:
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 11:20:30AM -0500, helices wrote:
I thought that I AM following etch ?!?!
I used this to install:
debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso
When that was done, my sources.list was this:
Really depends on if you are running Sarge or Etch and what chip set your
motherboard uses, and if you are running dual processors?.
If you are new - I would recommend Sarge.
Karl Schmidt EMail [EMAIL
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