[ale] wrong kernel after Debian squeeze install

[John Heim]

Actually, I figured out that this is an accessibility issue.  I didn't 
mention that I'm blind. It didn't occur to me that that might be relevant. 
To start the screen reader, you have to select the 3rd item on the boot 
menu, "graphical install" and then enter the boot parameter for your speech 
synthesizer. Well, right above "graphical install" on the boot menu is an 
option for a 64 bit install.  But I can't get speech if I select it.  Here 
is what the debian installation manual says:

http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install.txt.en
"Support for hardware speech synthesis devices is available only alongside
support for graphical installer. You thus need to select the 'Graphical
install' entry in the boot menu."

So I don't know how a blind person is supposed to do a 64 bit install. But, 
maybe the links you have provided will work for me.  If i get a CD w/o the 
option for a 32 bit install, maybe it will work.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Damon Chesser" <dchesser at acsi2000.com>
To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 11:21 AM
Subject: Re: [ale] wrong kernel after Debian squeeze install


> John,
>
> Technically, it did not install the wrong kernel, you did.  If you want 
> x64 you will need to use amd64, not x686. See
> http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.3/amd64/iso-cd/
>
> you only need to install with cd1, do only a base install, then use 
> apt-get to install the system you want.  Conversely, you could do a net 
> install: 
> http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.3/amd64/iso-cd/debian-6.0.3-amd64-netinst.iso 
> which pulls all the needed files from a Debian repository.
>
> In Debian x64= amd64 unless you have something like a spark:  see 
> http://www.debian.org/CD/ and start drilling down to the cpu type you 
> have.
>
> HTH
>
>
> Damon Chesser
> dchesser at acsi2000.com
> damon at damtek.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of John 
> Heim
> Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 12:10 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: [ale] wrong kernel after debian squeeze install
>
>    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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