On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 06:04:38AM +0800, Jon Miller wrote: > I need to do a kernel update on our Debian server from 2.4.26 to 2.6.11 o= r better. When I did a apt-cache search kernel-image 2 of the images I got= was: > kernel-image-2.6-686 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6 on PPro/Celeron= /PII/PIII/P4. > kernel-image-2.6-686-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.6 on PPro/Cel= eron/PII/PIII/P4 SMP. > The server has a P4 in it, from what I remember there is a feature in th= e BIOS that can turn on or off the Hyperthreading and with it on it's possi= ble (correct me if I'm wrong here) to run the system with the kernel-image= -2.6-686-smp image. > 1) is this correct > 2) are there really any benefits to running this as a gateway server? or = should I just stay with the kernel-image-2.6-686?
Note that the kernel packages have now been renamed to `linux-image-<ver>' $ apt-cache search linux-image [snip] linux-image-2.6.15-1-486 - Linux kernel 2.6.15 image on 486-class machines linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 - Linux kernel 2.6.15 image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PI= II/P4 machines linux-image-2.6.15-1-686-smp - Linux kernel 2.6.15 image on PPro/Celeron/PI= I/PIII/P4 SMP machines linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7 - Linux kernel 2.6.15 image on AMD K7 machines linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7-smp - Linux kernel 2.6.15 image on AMD K7 SMP machi= nes [snip] HTH. Kumar --=20 Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 ―------------------------------------------------------- When I do a apt-get update and then a apt-cache search kernel-image I only get the following for the 2.6 images. kernel-image-2.6-386 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6 on 386. kernel-image-2.6-686 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4. kernel-image-2.6-686-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.6 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4 SMP. kernel-image-2.6-amd64-generic - Linux kernel image for version 2.6 on generic x86_64 systems notice they do not have the version number. If there is a source where I can get the correct version I would appreciate the source list to use. Thanks
