On Saturday 25 March 2006 14:03, Steve Holdoway wrote: > As you may well know, I have been an exponent and fan of debian for many > years. Not any more... > > I decided to convert all of my servers to run virtually on a single > system, I've purchased nice big toys, and after a lot of tribulations, > got them all working. > > Base setup is 4x320GB SATA2 drives, 2GB memory, all driven by a dual > core 64bit amd processor. > > Took a bit of getting working - the bios had to interfere with the boot > sequence with it's 'RAID' controller: the solution os to set them up as > jbpd and it'll find the disks - and there were cabling issues with the > case, but I'm now ready to install a 64 bit linux. > > Wanted to use sarge, but there isn't a version available, Oh? http://debian.paradise.net.nz/debian/dists/sarge/
It appears to be a net install, but you can also use the jigdo tool to create a CD. > so went for > etch, which is the new name for testing. etch sits next to sid who breaks your toys. :-) > Downloaded the latest net > install CD, any built up the system. All went fine until I try to start > up a graphical interface. X is fine, but there's nothing else there. > I've got the default twm, but no gnome, and no kde either. > > apt-get install gnome fails with dependencies. so does kde. So I try the > bleeding edge version. Same deal. WTF? > > It seems there's a problem with the printer subsystem, and it's > currently impossible to install a 64 bit amd version of debian if you > want a gui. Given the press they've been getting lately, I'd say that > it's time to move on. > > So, like some other distros, I'm downloading Ubuntu as my base system. And I don't blame you for a moment for doing that. > Hopefully I can remove their silly security system and use it how a > server should be used AFAIK, a lot of server stuff is on the CDs. > ( I did look for a server version - sure there > used to be one around ). All you have to do is to give root a password sudo passwd root That worked for me a while ago. Or do you mean the unmentionable 'lets defeat the groups' notion. -- CS
