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On Nov 12, 2006, David Bell was like:
> Very impressed with the simplified, fast [etch AMD64] install
I agree with that. I had a little trouble with CUPS, probably my
ignorance; when I told CUPS the name of the printer and let it find
the driver then the test page printed ok.
I should be grateful if someone could answer a few questions about
etch (I've been in the Red Hat camp for so long I am not familiar with
the Debian style).
1. After the install I have two kernels, 2.6.16-2-amd64 and
2.6.16-2-amd64-generic, also there is a module 'generic'. What are
these doing and is it ok to delete the generic kernel?
2. Debian reference says it is essential to put mail in Maildir -- otherwise
Courier won't work. Exim4 config says Debian usually likes mbox format.
What is the point of Maildir, if any?
3. why does my home dir have a directory src owned by root?
4. in dmesg I get strange messages like
Scanning NUMA topology in Northbridge 24
Number of nodes 1
Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
Allocating PCI resources starting at 30000000 (gap: 20000000:c0000000)
Checking aperture...
CPU 0: aperture @ 9fa4000000 size 32 MB
Aperture from northbridge cpu 0 too small (32 MB)
Why is it rude about my aperture? How can I make it bigger? The mobo
is a NF4ST-A9 with nForce4 CK8-04 northbridge; is that inadequate?
Tony Sumner
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