[ale] wrong kernel after debian squeeze install

[John Heim]

Well, I guess you're right but that's not the whole story. I just clicked 
the "Download Debian 6.0(32/64-bit PC Network installer)" link on the debian 
home page. That gives you an iso that can do either a 32 or 64 bit install. 
But it appears that if you select "graphical install", which you have to do 
if you're blind and want to start the screen reader, then you get a 32 bit 
install.

Something strange about this though... The instructions for starting the 
screen reader quite specifically say to select the graphical installer but 
they don't say how to do that. I got someone to tell me to hit the down 
arrow twice to get to the graphical install. I guess I'll have to do that 
again for this other iso.  Maybe I can look at the iso itself to see how 
many times I have to hit the down arrow to get to the graphical install. But 
I don't like it. They really messed up the accessibility from lenny to 
squeeze.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rev. Johnny Healey" <rev.null at gmail.com>
To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 12:15 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] wrong kernel after debian squeeze install


> There are different debian installers for i686 and AMD64. You most likely
> downloaded the wrong ISO.
> On Oct 18, 2011 12:15 PM, "John Heim" <john at johnheim.net> wrote:
>
>>    All,
>>
>> This morning I installed debian squeeze on a machine with an AMD64 CPU. 
>> But
>> the installer never asked me which kernel I wanted and it put a 686 
>> kernel
>> on the thing.  Why did it do that and how can I make it either ask me or
>> make it default to a 64 bit kernel? Below is some of the output from
>> getSystemId & 'cat /proc/cpu_info'. Maybe a clue as to what the problme 
>> is
>> that if I do a uname -p, it says my processor is unknown. Maybe linux 
>> can't
>> ID  my CPU and therefore doesn't know its 64 bit?
>>
>> Product Name: PowerEdge SC1435
>> BIOS Version: 1.1.2
>> Vendor:       Dell Inc.
>> vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
>> model name      : Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2210
>>
>> # uname -p
>> unknown
>>
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