Re: Migrating 32 - 64

2013-08-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 5:44 AM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: On 8/11/2013 4:08 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: I recently went through the exercise of putting a GbE NIC into an old 32 bit x86 machine w/PCI only. The first card I purchased, a $10 USD TP-Link w/RTL8169, couldn't power on.

Re: Migrating 32 - 64

2013-08-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Moral of the story? The OP may need to spend ~$30 USD for an Intel PCI NIC to guarantee it'll work on the first go. He probably gave not much more than this for entire used machines. Factor in that you can get a brand new mobo/cpu/RAM combo with GbE and GPU today for

REDUX: Re: Migrating 32 - 64

2013-08-12 Thread Gregory Seidman
Thanks to everyone for the helpful input. It looks like there is no advantage to converting to 64-bit, which is just fine with me. The new machine has 4GB of RAM, so I am not hitting address space issues. I don't do anything more CPU-intensive than spam filtering. I do occasionally do some

Re: REDUX: Re: Migrating 32 - 64

2013-08-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Gregory Seidman wrote: It looks like it will be worth my while to copy partitions over to the new disk, if only so I can increase the size of my root partition (which I foolishly made too small). Did you use LVM? If so then you can simply expand it with some free space from elsewhere.

Re: Migrating 32 - 64

2013-08-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 10. August 2013, 20:25:46 schrieb Gregory Seidman: I have a low-cost (i.e. old and refurbished) server at home, but it's showing indications of impending hardware failure (e.g. the on-board NIC was being reset automatically every 2 seconds for a while because it was hanging). As a

Re: Migrating 32 - 64

2013-08-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/10/2013 7:25 PM, Gregory Seidman wrote: I have a low-cost (i.e. old and refurbished) server at home, but it's showing indications of impending hardware failure (e.g. the on-board NIC was being reset automatically every 2 seconds for a while because it was hanging). As a result, I have

Re: Migrating 32 - 64

2013-08-11 Thread Kailash
On Sunday 11 August 2013 12:59 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 8/10/2013 7:25 PM, Gregory Seidman wrote: I have a low-cost (i.e. old and refurbished) server at home, but it's showing indications of impending hardware failure (e.g. the on-board NIC was being reset automatically every 2 seconds for a

Re: Migrating 32-64

2013-08-11 Thread David Baron
Results like not worth the effort, though it can be done now as a crossgrade much more easily. I had tried the dbootstrap method. Almost got there but ... had to restore. The main question is whether 32 bit packages will be gradually phased out. One can already find missing pieces. If this

Re: Migrating 32-64

2013-08-11 Thread Doug
On 08/11/2013 09:12 AM, David Baron wrote: Results like not worth the effort, though it can be done now as a crossgrade much more easily. I had tried the dbootstrap method. Almost got there but ... had to restore. The main question is whether 32 bit packages will be gradually phased

Re: Migrating 32-64

2013-08-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 11/08/13 10:28 AM, Doug wrote: On 08/11/2013 09:12 AM, David Baron wrote: Results like not worth the effort, though it can be done now as a crossgrade much more easily. I had tried the dbootstrap method. Almost got there but ... had to restore. The main question is whether 32 bit packages

Re: Migrating 32 - 64

2013-08-11 Thread Bob Proulx
David Christensen wrote: Gregory Seidman wrote: I have a low-cost (i.e. old and refurbished) server at home, but it's showing indications of impending hardware failure (e.g. the on-board NIC was being reset automatically every 2 seconds for a while because it was hanging). Install a

Re: Migrating 32 - 64

2013-08-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/11/2013 4:08 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: David Christensen wrote: Gregory Seidman wrote: I have a low-cost (i.e. old and refurbished) server at home, but it's showing indications of impending hardware failure (e.g. the on-board NIC was being reset automatically every 2 seconds for a while

Re: Migrating 32 - 64

2013-08-11 Thread David Christensen
On 08/11/13 19:44, Stan Hoeppner wrote: I ate the $10 NIC putting it on a shelf because return shipping + restocking fee is almost $10. Second time around I emailed the e1000 driver list. An Intel engineer responded and verified that the universal model of the Pro/1000 GT should work. Ordered

Migrating 32 - 64

2013-08-10 Thread Gregory Seidman
I have a low-cost (i.e. old and refurbished) server at home, but it's showing indications of impending hardware failure (e.g. the on-board NIC was being reset automatically every 2 seconds for a while because it was hanging). As a result, I have purchased a new (old and refurbished) machine. The

Re: Migrating 32 - 64

2013-08-10 Thread Ivan Kovnatsky
On Aug 11, 2013 at 03:25, Gregory Seidman gsslist+deb...@anthropohedron.net wrote: I have a low-cost (i.e. old and refurbished) server at home, but it's showing indications of impending hardware failure (e.g. the on-board NIC was being reset automatically every 2 seconds for a while because it

Re: Migrating 32 - 64

2013-08-10 Thread David Christensen
On 08/10/13 17:25, Gregory Seidman wrote: I have a low-cost (i.e. old and refurbished) server at home, but it's showing indications of impending hardware failure (e.g. the on-board NIC was being reset automatically every 2 seconds for a while because it was hanging). As a result, I have