Re: dist upgrade, amd64 sarge (unofficial) - etch

2007-04-25 Thread Matthew Robinson
Justin C wrote: I've been using the unofficial back-port of amd64 Sarge (as I guess a lot of people here were). This is a production server and work relies on it, so I've been a little bit hesitant about upgrading from an unsupported version to an official version, just in case. I've not read

Re: Why daily builds on the installer page for testing point to sid?

2007-03-09 Thread Matthew Robinson
Florian Philipp wrote: Am Donnerstag, 8. März 2007 23:11 schrieb R. Ramesh: Hi, I thought testing is named etch. But when I go to debian installer page for netinst image for amd64 version, I get an iso file that is named xxx-testing-xxx.iso. However the title on the page says it is Sid! I

Re: Sys will boot from floppy but not from HD

2007-02-19 Thread Matthew Robinson
A J Stiles wrote: On Monday 19 February 2007 00:01, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: Hey all, I have an old problem that I now wish to fix since I have just upgraded my file server. I can boot the server from a floppy but when I try to boot directly from the Hard Drive all I get is 01 01 01 01 ...

Re: Asus motherboard hangs in X

2006-09-02 Thread Matthew Robinson
Try changing the driver in xorg.conf to 'vesa'. This will be much slower than the binary Nvidia drivers, but if it works, youve found your problem. Thanks Matt. I have changed the driver to Vesa, and so far I can't make it crash. I am now upgrading from stable to

Re: [POLL] To continue 64 or not?

2006-09-01 Thread Matthew Robinson
Albert Dengg wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 02:58:51PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: U?ytkownik Jan De Luyck [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisa?: Openoffice. I'm tempted to try out the 64-bit build for the latter... anyone here with experience on

Re: AMD64 port compromised ?

2006-07-13 Thread Matthew Robinson
Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 08:36:58AM +0200, Emmanuel Fleury wrote: Is the AMD64 branch of Debian compromised as well by the problem on gluck.debian.org ? For testing and unstable, no more and no less than any other architecture. The

Re: Sound uses almost 100 percent

2006-06-22 Thread Matthew Robinson
Michal Schmidt wrote: Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Hello all, I have a slight problem, but cannot find out the bad package. It could be the kernel, too. Description: I am running KDE and use XMMS to listen to a tune. At the same time, I am running kopete. Whenever there is an event, kopete wants

Re: XFS, EXT3 or some other?

2006-06-21 Thread Matthew Robinson
Adam Skutt wrote: Christian Hammers wrote: Normal servers have most of their databases and web content in RAM anyway as RAM is cheap nowadays 2TB of RAM isn't cheap nor is the hardware to address it. Hell, 32GB of RAM isn't cheap nor is the hardware to address it. Normal for a database

Re: multiprocessor

2006-06-20 Thread Matthew Robinson
Francesco Pietra wrote: Forgot to say: $ uname -a Linux deb64 2.6.15-1-amd64-k8-smp #2 date mpqc 2.3.0-1, running on amd64 etch debian, sees only one processor, while there are two. I posed the question also to the mpqc list but, in the meantime, I wonder wether there is

Re: Cannot install a bootloader

2006-06-20 Thread Matthew Robinson
Dirk Bonenkamp - Bean IT wrote: Hi Steffen, Thanks for your reply. Only I'm not sure what to do now... I've chrooted to /target and tried to install grub again, still the same error. The mtab and device.map look correct to me. Could you give me another hint? Thanks! Dirk

Re: multiprocessor

2006-06-20 Thread Matthew Robinson
Francesco Pietra wrote: On Tuesday 20 June 2006 10:55, Matthew Robinson wrote: Francesco Pietra wrote: Forgot to say: $ uname -a Linux deb64 2.6.15-1-amd64-k8-smp #2 date mpqc 2.3.0-1, running on amd64 etch debian, sees only one processor, while

Re: multiprocessor

2006-06-20 Thread Matthew Robinson
Francesco Pietra wrote: After learning from you how to inquiry the cpu, and reading better the mpqc manual, the command mpqc -messagegrp ShmMessageGrp:(n = 4) filename.inp | tee filename.out puts all four processors at work and the acceleration with respect to using only one cpu is really

Re: XFS, EXT3 or some other?

2006-06-19 Thread Matthew Robinson
Christopher Browne wrote: On 6/16/06, Hemlock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Seeking some advice on which filesystem to use. I've been primarlity an ext3 user, because thats all I've really ever known of, but would consider trying something else. Plus, never used anything other than 32bit

Re: gcc

2006-06-06 Thread Matthew Robinson
Francesco Pietra wrote: Hi Joe: Thank you. Because gcc is called by $make, I tried to install gcc: #apt-get install gcc gcc: Depends: gcc-4.0 (=4.0.2-5) but is not installable E: Broken packages. francesco pietra On Tuesday 06 June 2006 17:45, Jo Shields wrote: Francesco Pietra

Re: Sarge on 100GB SATA Drives

2006-04-21 Thread Matthew Robinson
David Haworth wrote: Hi Siju, On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 06:02:06PM +0530, Siju George wrote: Hi all, I am trying to net install sarge amd64 port on an amd64 athlon computer with 120GB Seagate Baracuda 7200.7 SATA Hard Disk. The mother board is

Re: Intel Xeon Server

2006-03-16 Thread Matthew Robinson
to go especially when considerating future updates? We use a duel Xeon server for fone-me.com, running Debian Sarge - its very stable and fully supported by the debian security team. -- Matthew Robinson www.fone-me.com free phone sex for all new members -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Chown problem

2006-03-09 Thread Matthew Robinson
' for more information. panoramix:/home/jkr/MP3# chown -R jkr:jkr ./* (user and group are seperated by a colon, not a dot) -- Matthew Robinson www.fone-me.com free phone sex for all new members -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Music stutters during startup of programs

2006-02-28 Thread Matthew Robinson
my MP3's are stored. Is anyone experiencing the same kind of problem? Does anyone know what I can do to diagnose the botleneck? Or (best of all!) has a sollution? Use hdparm -t to find out how fast you can read (possibly write, i cant remember) from your disks -- Matthew Robinson www.fone

Re: powernow-k8 problem

2006-02-21 Thread Matthew Robinson
options in grub. Infact, its possible to set a fallback kernel in grub, to do remote kernel upgrades, set k8 as default, 486 as fallback. -- Matthew Robinson www.fone-me.com free phone sex for all new members -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: powernow-k8 problem

2006-02-21 Thread Matthew Robinson
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 12:12, thomasl wrote: On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 11:28:46AM +, Matthew Robinson wrote: On Tuesday 21 February 2006 11:25, thomasl wrote: I think I go back to 486 kernel again. It is very nice to be able to move the boot disk to whatever other computer

Re: Security updates?

2006-01-26 Thread Matthew Robinson
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 17:54, Rob van Kraanen wrote: Are they safe enough to rely on for a webserver? Or should we run Stable 32bits until AMD64 gets official? It is planned for december, if i'm not wrong. Is it doable or will there be delay? I'm doing fine running AMD64 on a webserver.

no updates to amd64 stable in last 3 weeks?

2006-01-05 Thread Matthew Robinson
i'm currently running AMD64 Stable, and i'm a little worried that there haven't been any updates (sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade) since just after i first installed. here's my sources.list #deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-amd64/debian/ stable

Re: no updates to amd64 stable in last 3 weeks?

2006-01-05 Thread Matthew Robinson
On Thursday 05 January 2006 13:01, Clive Menzies wrote: On (05/01/06 10:27), Matthew Robinson wrote: i'm currently running AMD64 Stable, and i'm a little worried that there haven't been any updates (sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade) since just after i first installed

Re: Install problem on Supermicro X6DHT-G system

2006-01-04 Thread Matthew Robinson
On Tuesday 03 January 2006 18:44, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: This list rocks! Thank you all for the ideas and suggestions. I will reinstall tonight and try moving the CD to a master channel and try changing the BOIS settings and see if any of these help. I'll report back with my findings. no

Re: Is AMD-64 mature enough to start using? (possibly on K8V-MX moptherboard)

2005-12-28 Thread Matthew Robinson
On Wednesday 28 December 2005 02:18, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: Dean Hamstead wrote: dont know about that. but the ppc may lend itself more to stability given that the g3 isnt backward compatible. errrm, what? AFAIK, it's compatible with earlier PPC chips like the 60x series. I was

Re: CONGRATULATIONS!!!

2005-12-22 Thread Matthew Robinson
Basic rules of life and the internet: If you're offered something for nothing, there is probably a catch If you respond to such emails, you will get many more Unscrupulous people use such ideas to rip you off Regards Clive i'm guessing you just responded to a email harvester for spam.

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is the AMD-64 ready for reliable use? (possibly on K8V-MX moptherboard)]

2005-12-22 Thread Matthew Robinson
On Thursday 22 December 2005 14:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm considering buying a box and putting the AMD64 port of sarge on it. we're running a production server on it. not had much testing yet, i'l know within a month if its up to it :). its supported by the debian security team though.

Re: installing amd64 kernel

2005-12-21 Thread Matthew Robinson
simply edit the sources file to return back to the Debian fold? You are assuming wrong. You will run into several problems with incompatibilities between ubuntu and Debian. Pity. Then, can you advise how to do that? TIA, i'd say you should backup /home and install debian proper