On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:43:14 +0300, Teemu Likonen wrote: > I'm about to buy a new motherboard (and CPU etc.) and will probably > switch from i386 to amd64 system. Many motherboards have a chipset which > requires newer kernel than 2.6.32 which is on Debian 6.0.5. On the other > hand backports.debian.org has kernel 3.2. > > Is it possible to install Debian 6.0.5 directly with newer kernel? I > don't know what kernel is used by the Debian 6.0.5 installer and I'm not > sure if my potential new motherboard will boot or work at all with the > default Debian 6.0.5 installer/installed kernel.
You can first try with a Debian LiveCD to check if all the hardware is properly detected. Squeeze latest installer has kernel "2.6.32+29". > Currently I'm thinking of Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD5 motherboard with Intel > Core i7 980 CPU. > > http://www.gigabyte.fi/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3450#ov > http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/Giga-byte/GA-X58-UD5 > http://ark.intel.com/products/47933/Intel-Core-i7-970-Processor-%2812M-Cache-3_20-GHz-4_80-GTs-Intel-QPI%29 > > If you would like to suggest another motherboard and CPU here are my > requirements: (...) Generally speaking, I like Gigabyte and MSI motherboards. For a professional usage, I'd stay with Supermicro or Tyan :-) > Thanks for any help. Please Cc to me your replies. See Mail-Followup-To. Sorry, I can't ;-( Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
