Hi Karl: In fact I recovered from my mental mess, reasoning approximately as you below. I started yesterday (too late in the day!) the installation and sent a preliminary positive feedback to the list and in particular to Goswin - who generously helped me patiently - a preliminary positive feed back from installation with debian amd64 testing installer.
It was too late to continue the installation and I'll resume the work later in the day. I was stopped at partitioning the two HDs. Although I choose manual partitioning, I was unable to find the option how to partition. But I was so sleepy. I always believed that oversimplifying may not solve the problem. Adding to your note as to beginners/linux flavor, there is another route: starting at full possibilities while associating to the next linux group. I did so for debian 32 but now in my group no one has yet tried debian 64 or an advanced mainboard as I have. Thanks for your warning and encouragement. francesco pietra On Tuesday 23 May 2006 04:49, Karl Schmidt wrote: > Not all of a move to ubuntu is good news. Be aware that it is _not_ like > Debian Stable. I tried using ubuntu to install on a AMD64 system and tried > to move to Debian stable - turned into a huge mess. > > Ubuntu could be a version of Debian with 'pinning' of certain packages and > a few special packages to set up sane defaults and a few special packages - > but that is not what it is. From what I can tell, not much that is learned > in ubuntu is going directly back to Debian. > > It may not be a bad choice for a first time Linux user. > > I found that the iso at: > http://amd64.debian.net/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-amd64/beta2/ima >ges/netboot/mini.iso > > worked better than others. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Karl Schmidt EMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Transtronics, Inc. WEB http://xtronics.com > 3209 West 9th Street Ph (785) 841-3089 > Lawrence, KS 66049 FAX (785) 841-0434 > > > Merchandise offered without price, > is sure to cost more than it is worth. -kps > ---------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
