Re: Installation advice needed for a really stable desktop machine

2007-03-23 Thread Land Haj
>I thought all the kernels were SMP-enabled now, no? Didn't Debian do >away with the distinction between SMP and non-SMP kernels? At least, >when I look at what's available with aptitude, all the kernel images >labelled with "-smp" are given as "for transition only." Unless I'm mistaken the 486

Re: Installation advice needed for a really stable desktop machine

2007-03-23 Thread Michael M.
On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 12:50 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > With 4 GB of RAM, you probably don't need a swap at all. Since you have > a duel core machine, make sure you use an smp kernel. Everything should > work fine and you'll have a fine system that I and others can be jealous > over. I thought al

Re: Installation advice needed for a really stable desktop machine

2007-03-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
Land Haj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm afraid I'll encounter more stuff like this with that kernel. What > other smp-kernel would be a good choice for my hardware? Maybe the -k7 image will do? HTH, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstei

Re: Installation advice needed for a really stable desktop machine

2007-03-22 Thread Land Haj
'm afraid I'll encounter more stuff like this with that kernel. What other smp-kernel would be a good choice for my hardware? /landhaj - Original Message From: Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 8:00:59 AM Subjec

Re: Installation advice needed for a really stable desktop machine

2007-03-22 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 12:50:17PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > > I've been using sid for amd64 on my production machine since before it > > became an official debian port, but for the next few years I will have 0 > > time for fixing stuff that might break, and so I'm gonna use stable > > instead, star

Re: Installation advice needed for a really stable desktop machine

2007-03-22 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Liam O'Toole wrote: [snip] >>. It seems people have blinders on today. He said he wanted to use the >> 32-bit version and he currently uses the 64-bit version. One can't >> downgrade a system from 64-bit to 32-bit easily. IMO, one would be >> better

Re: Installation advice needed for a really stable desktop machine

2007-03-22 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:20:44 +0100 Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Liam O'Toole wrote: [...] > > But there is another possibility you should consider. Rather than > > reinstalling, you could change your apt sources right now, run > > 'ap

Re: Installation advice needed for a really stable desktop machine

2007-03-22 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 03:25:16 -0700 (PDT) > Land Haj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> I've been using sid for amd64 on my production machine since before >> it became an official debian port, but for the next few years I

Re: Installation advice needed for a really stable desktop machine

2007-03-22 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Pobega wrote: > On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 12:50:17PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Land Haj wrote: >>> Hi! >>> >>> I've been using sid for amd64 on my production machine since before it >>> becam

Re: Installation advice needed for a really stable desktop machine

2007-03-22 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 03:25:16 -0700 (PDT) Land Haj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I've been using sid for amd64 on my production machine since before > it became an official debian port, but for the next few years I will > have 0 time for fixing stuff that might break, and so I'm gonna use >

Re: Installation advice needed for a really stable desktop machine

2007-03-22 Thread Michael Pobega
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 12:50:17PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Land Haj wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I've been using sid for amd64 on my production machine since before it > > became an official debian port, but for the next few years I will have 0 > > t

Re: Installation advice needed for a really stable desktop machine

2007-03-22 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Land Haj wrote: > Hi! > > I've been using sid for amd64 on my production machine since before it > became an official debian port, but for the next few years I will have 0 > time for fixing stuff that might break, and so I'm gonna use stable > instead

Installation advice needed for a really stable desktop machine

2007-03-22 Thread Land Haj
Hi! I've been using sid for amd64 on my production machine since before it became an official debian port, but for the next few years I will have 0 time for fixing stuff that might break, and so I'm gonna use stable instead, starting with etch. Ideally I should make the move in the next few day