Re: Debian for x86-64 (AMD Opteron) and migration?

2003-06-16 Thread Xavier Roche
Ok, a bit late in this thread, but just a small remark on the future Opteron port : we have to take a *great* care of the migration process. The main difference betweek Intel-64 and AMD-64, if I am correct, is that administrators can unplug their ix86 disk from the server, and replug it on a

Re: Debian for x86-64 (AMD Opteron) and migration?

2003-06-16 Thread Emile van Bergen
Hi, On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 07:33:35AM +0200, Xavier Roche wrote: Then, a nice thing would be on Debian, for a regular user/administrator: - switch the disks to a Opteron box - update the APT sources to a Opteron source, or to a Opteron migration source - then, use something like :

Re: Debian for x86-64 (AMD Opteron) and migration?

2003-06-16 Thread Arnd Bergmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 16 June 2003 09:12, Emile van Bergen wrote: # echo x86-64 /etc/dpkg/legal-archs or, if ordering matters, # echo x86-64 /etc/dpkg/legal-archs.new # cat /etc/dpkg/legal-archs /etc/dpkg/legal-archs.new # mv /etc/dpkg/legal-archs.new