[NBLUG/talk] Debian 64bit kernel

Jippen cheetahmorph at gmail.com
Wed Nov 7 13:52:17 PST 2007


I know fresh setups of 32 bit OSs work fine on 64 bit OSs.
As long as you can get all the data back on, you should be fine.

On Nov 7, 2007 1:17 PM, Walter Hansen <gandalf at sonic.net> wrote:
>
> I've had a server with the 64 bit kernel on it for some time and I've
> always had issues with this and that (nothing un-livable) on it. Also from
> the speed tests I've seen the differences are minor and probably don't
> apply much to my servers main processes (samba,apache,mysql,perl,php).
>
> I'd really like to go to the standard 32 bit stable version (or even the
> testing version if it's pretty stable) and am wondering how complex this
> would be. I could probably take a Saturday, disconnect one of the raid 1
> drives and do a fresh install on the other, then move everything onto the
> fresh setup and once it's been tested re-establish the raid but I'm sure
> this will be an all day process with possible issues.
>
> Looks like I'm running vmlinuz-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8 currently. I've got the
> main system on a pair of raid 1 70g Western Digital Raptor 10,000rpm
> drives.
>
> Comments? Suggestions? Laughter?
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