Re: New hardware under Etch ?

2006-12-23 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-12-16 15:43:53, schrieb Roberto C. Sanchez: > On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 10:34:37AM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > > > Nice. > > > > I doubt that Sarge will find your SATA drives; go with Etch. Etch > > I have two Opteron servers with 4 GB RAM and 2 SATA drives each and the > Sarge instal

Re: New hardware under Etch ?

2006-12-17 Thread Rob Sims
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 11:48:34AM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > An off-topic question: why is this Debian kernel limited to 4GB and > why do there have to be an option instead of just setting the whole > thing to 64GB? There is a slight performance penalty for the 64G support. > Another o

Re: New hardware under Etch ?

2006-12-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: On 12/17/06, stevendemetrius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For proper support for 6GB RAM you will have to re-compile the kernel as the Debian kernel-image is compiled for 4GB RAM. When you configure the kernel you can change the settings under the "Processor type and

New hardware under Etch ?

2006-12-17 Thread stevendemetrius
Currently the limitation is the Linux kernel itself not the Debian modified version. The Debian kernel maintainers take the original Linux kernel and modifies it as need so that it works better with Debian and conforms to the Debian definition of OSS (Open Source Software). You can read more a

Re: New hardware under Etch ?

2006-12-17 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 12/17/06, stevendemetrius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For proper support for 6GB RAM you will have to re-compile the kernel as the Debian kernel-image is compiled for 4GB RAM. When you configure the kernel you can change the settings under the "Processor type and Features" section. Change it

New hardware under Etch ?

2006-12-17 Thread stevendemetrius
Like other have stated here cat /proc/cpuinfo will list processor 0 and 1 if it finds them. You can run the above command from any terminal as a non-root user. You may want to use "less" if the info runs off the screen. You can use Page-up Page-down keys with "less" cat /proc/cpuinfo | less

Re: New hardware under Etch ?

2006-12-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 10:34:37AM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > Nice. > > I doubt that Sarge will find your SATA drives; go with Etch. Etch I have two Opteron servers with 4 GB RAM and 2 SATA drives each and the Sarge installer (unofficial amd64) found them just great. > should work. Best

Re: New hardware under Etch ?

2006-12-16 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 03:30:17PM +0100, Christian Christmann wrote: > Hi, > > I've a system with 6 GB RAM, two AMD Opteron > CPUs and an S-ATA HD. Will these components run under > a default Debian Sarge. If so, where can I check that > both CPUs are running? Will /proc/cpuinfo provide > appropr

Re: New hardware under Etch ?

2006-12-16 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 15:30 +0100, Christian Christmann wrote: > I've a system with 6 GB RAM, two AMD Opteron > CPUs and an S-ATA HD. Will these components run under > a default Debian Sarge. Hard to say, you provide no details on the hardware - what model motherboard, etc. > If so, where can I c

New hardware under Etch ?

2006-12-16 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, I've a system with 6 GB RAM, two AMD Opteron CPUs and an S-ATA HD. Will these components run under a default Debian Sarge. If so, where can I check that both CPUs are running? Will /proc/cpuinfo provide appropriate information? Regards, Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]