Hi Jenny
On Tuesday 21 November 2006 15:57, Jenny Hopkins wrote:
It would appear I inadvertently grabbed the wrong install iso the second time around so had the wrong kernel. (Hangs head). I've downloaded the correct one now and all may be well.
With the ever helpful assistance of Brett, I'm sure it won't take you long to get up and running.
I've heard glowing reports about amd64, but I'm so unused to a different architecture that I've had loads of idiot problems like these so far.
Well... I've been running amd64 for a couple of weeks now (and powerpc for a few months) and as long as you "go with the flow", nothing should jump out and bite. The stuff that has been giving me problems has been <*spit> java <*spit> and some screwball-ware claiming to be 64bit compliant.. As if -fno-strict-aliasing cures all evils..
I need a specific kernel patch that has yet to be ported to x86_64 (a.k.a. amd64) so I may well switch back or perhaps risk digging deep in to the internals of 2.6.19.
Regards, Paul.