On Tuesday 15 June 2004 19:55, BenEBoy wrote:
As mentioned before (unless the post has been eaten somewhere along the line), I am the proud owner of an AMD64.
Damm and Blast, I thought I was going to be the first person on the list running Linux on an AMD64.
I was going towards something along the lines of- Mainboard MSI K8T Neo FIS2 CPU AMD 64 3200 (retail) Memory 2x 512 DDR3200 Hard Drives 2x WD Caviar 160Gb Fluid DVD -R NEC 2500A Black DVD Samsung Black Graphics Nvidia FX 5200
However after googling on Raid 1 performance using the onboard chipset(s) I may scrub the idea of two drives and use the money to buy a new firewire drive to use as off site storage. Also the jury is still out on processor speed as I'll buy whatever is the right price at the time.
Also I have to budget for a new ADSL router, My Alcatel frog will have to take a long overdue dive into the bin as I hear that the Speedtouch drivers won't compile for 2.6.x kernels and/or 64bit
I've googled for an answer to this with no luck, but how do I install the 64 bit versions of software for debian? Will apt-get automagically detect I have a 64bit processor and do it for me? Is it not as simple as that?
Not a big Debian user myself, however there seems to be a project page here
http://www.debian.org/ports/amd64/
Wayne