On Sat, 25 Mar 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, so went for
> etch, which is the new name for testing. 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.
> Hopefully I can remove their silly security system and use it how a
> server should be used ( I did look for a server version - sure there
> used to be one around ).
>
> I'll ley you know how I get on with this foray into the 64 bit world,
> or if I give up and return to 32 bit sanity instead.
cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/sarge-amd64.
Phil.
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