Hi, I did a install of etch using the latest release installer. It went nicely. I have two comments and 1 related question.
I installed and immediately upgraded to sid. (naughty me). I think of using the latest installer as the best way to get to my preferred desktop :). 2 Issues that I noticed, and 1 separate related question. 1) As soon as I rebooted into my system after the upgrade to sid I noticed that the eth0 was not comming up! So I had to su and do ifup eth0. Then I rebooted again to check and again needed to do ifup eth0. What was wrong? I looked in /etc/network/interfaces and saw all this "cruft" (i hope that is not a bad word). I saw ######################## # This is a list of hotpluggable network interfaces. # They will be activated automatically by the hotplug subsystem. mapping eth0 script grep map eth0 # The primary network interface allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.x.x.x ########################## instead of what I usually see auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static etc So I simply commented out the "cruft" replaced by good stuff and rebooted and all was well. What was the problem? What does this new stuff 'add' and what wentwrong? 2) I have 2GB of ram and the installed kernel has no highmem support I had to recompile my own kernel to get support for my RAM. dmesg Warning only 896MB will be used. Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel I would have preferred if the default kernel would enable highmem. Is that possible. 3) Also, I do have a way cool dual core amd64 processor here to play with. On the other had I really should not futz around too much with chroots and stuff and would like to use all the binary drivers I need for graphics development as well as debian free software so I think (???) I don't want to shift over to amd64 arch as yet. Thus I need ooffice and I need nvidia drivers for 6600GT video card for opengl. So what debian kernel package with highmem can i select. will linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7-smp work on my system? I prefer using a debian kernel for ease of use. For instance Last night i compiled the new kernel by downloading a fresh linux-2.6.15-6 tarball and copying over the debian /boot/config-2.6.15-1-486 to /usr/src/linux and modifying by selecting the Processor Family Opteron/athlon64/hammer/k8 and enabled multiprocessor support and configured high memory support 4GB and otherwise left it as debian had it for the 486. Thus i see CONFIG_X86_PC=y CONFIG_MK8=y and alot of stuff like CONFIG_X86_GENERIC=y CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG=y CONFIG_X86_XADD=y CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=7 CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM=y CONFIG_GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY=y CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG64=y CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_INTEL_USERCOPY=y CONFIG_X86_USE_PPRO_CHECKSUM=y CONFIG_X86_TSC=y CONFIG_HPET_TIMER=y Ok. So what does it mean. Am I just using a 32bit kernel with selection of amd64 dual processor? Where can I read more about this? Thanks Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]