Tuesday
Finished installing Ubuntu host, was waiting for a choice of "server
install" which never came, I guess 64-bit doesn't have it. No package
selection either. About the only thing it asks you is the username. I
kept it down to 40GB + 1GB swap, as all it will be doing is running VMWare.
I got started with VMWare, and saw that I needed kernel headers for the
running kernel, (and a compiler,) which is when I noticed that the
kernel was just "AMD64-generic." I also figured out that Opterons are
still considered K8.
I looked at what else was available, and upgraded it to
2.6.15-24-K8-smp, and got the headers for that, as well as GCC. Oddly,
when I boot, I don't see a kernel choice in grub, but the new one is
running. Kernel log shows both CPU's humming away. (4268 BogoMIPS)
VMWare installed "perfectly." I created a 60GB virtual machine for
another Ubuntu-64, the one I will "really" use. I also just learned that
I am not limited to "64-bit machines." (I only have a 32-bit Vista.)
I gave Ubuntu both processors and a gigabyte of RAM.
-- In this world you must be oh-so-smart, or oh-so-pleasant. For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant.
Elwood P. Dowd
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