On 2006-02-17, Graham Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes. The Althon 64 fully supports i386 through some fancy on chip emulation > that is as fast as a native 32 bit chip (I think all the 64 bit processors > you mention do this but don't quite me on that).
So I could do that by booting a normal i386 network-installation bootable CD, and start with the i386 kernel, right? In this case, would I be able to run OpenOffice, mplayer and flash without difficulty from the binary packages? Should this also work on Xeon and Opteron, and how do I choose between the three processors? >> In that case, which kernel flavour would I use? > > You have a wide range of choices. You can go pure 32 bit and install the > standard i386 Debian, you can go mixed and have a 64 bit kernel an 32 bit > user space or you can go pure 64 bit. I've never tried a mixed system but > apparently it works fine. > > I'm running the 2.6.15-1-amd64-k8 kernel at the moment which is AMD64 > specific. If you are confused just go for one of the generic kernels. Is there a table anywhere that lists processors by their common names and tells which kernels will work on which ones? Thanks, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]