Re: i386 or amd64?

2007-01-02 Thread Mike Reinehr
Greg, On Monday 01 January 2007 18:25, Greg Madden wrote: On Mon, 09 Oct 2006 21:30:08 +0200 Thomas Steffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/8/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Other than non-free stuff like flash and openoffice, is there anything in the main section of i386

Re: i386 or amd64?

2007-01-02 Thread Mike Reinehr
Jim, On Tuesday 02 January 2007 13:03, Jim Crilly wrote: On 01/02/07 12:02:37PM -0600, Mike Reinehr wrote: Greg, On Monday 01 January 2007 18:25, Greg Madden wrote: On Mon, 09 Oct 2006 21:30:08 +0200 Thomas Steffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/8/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: keep specific versions of packages

2006-12-27 Thread Mike Reinehr
Francesco, On Wednesday 27 December 2006 01:54, Francesco Pietra wrote: --- Mike Reinehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 24 December 2006 09:03, Francesco Pietra wrote: I want to avoid any modification from apt-get commands to mpqc 2.3.1-0.2 specially compiled

Re: keep specific versions of packages

2006-12-24 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Sunday 24 December 2006 09:03, Francesco Pietra wrote: I want to avoid any modification from apt-get commands to mpqc 2.3.1-0.2 specially compiled for amd64 with libint (which is not included in the package of same version on debian repositories) and installed with dpkg. I.e., I want to

Re: Kernel Configuration Question

2006-12-23 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Saturday 23 December 2006 09:35, Jim Crilly wrote: On 12/22/06 12:10:41PM -0600, Mike Reinehr wrote: I hate to answer my own posting but it belatedly has occurred to me that perhaps it's not possible to mount a root partition using LVM without an initrd.img. I've booted without

Kernel Configuration Question

2006-12-22 Thread Mike Reinehr
Would someone please help me with what, I think, should be a fairly simple kernel configuration question. I am attempting compile a new AMD64 kernel that will boot without using an initrd.img file. I've done this a number of times before, but this time I can't seem to get it working. Every

Re: Kernel Configuration Question

2006-12-22 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Friday 22 December 2006 11:43, Mike Reinehr wrote: Would someone please help me with what, I think, should be a fairly simple kernel configuration question. I am attempting compile a new AMD64 kernel that will boot without using an initrd.img file. I've done this a number of times before

Re: Athenians, Chappy's Ham

2006-12-13 Thread Mike Reinehr
Oops! Sorry, I'm not sure how this happened. cmr -- Debian 'Etch': Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt repositories

2006-11-29 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 08:39, Raffaele Morelli wrote: Hi everybody, could someone post a mirror for amd64 etch. thanx http://www.debian.org/mirror/list -- Debian 'Etch': Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC -- To

Re: Keys too old or compromised ?

2006-11-21 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Tuesday 21 November 2006 15:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: W: Es gibt keine ?ffentlichen Schl?ssel f?r die folgenden Schl?ssel-IDs: A70DAF536070D3A1 W: Es gibt keine ?ffentlichen Schl?ssel f?r die folgenden Schl?ssel-IDs: A70DAF536070D3A1 W: Es gibt keine ?ffentlichen Schl?ssel f?r

Re: Kernel 2.6.19-rc4 custom debian package

2006-11-02 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Wednesday 01 November 2006 17:13, Jean-Michel Pouré wrote: Dear friends, Because of several daily freezes under AMD64 + nvidia, I decided to make a custom 2.6.18-rc4 Debian package. I followed the normal procedure: * Download 2.6.18 kernel and patch agains 2.6.19-rc4 This is done by

Re: xorg problem and 404 error on bugs

2006-11-02 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Thursday 02 November 2006 11:10, Lennart Sorensen wrote: Any idea on the 404 error?  How do I follow discussion of a particular bug (e.g. 381612)?  How could I have found dexconf on my own? Well there is a man page for dexconf on sarge at least.  404 errors means the web server doesn't

Re: System freeze

2006-10-31 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Tuesday 31 October 2006 00:33, Jan De Luyck wrote: On Monday 30 October 2006 23:03, Jean-Michel Pouré wrote: Dear Friends, I recently bought an AMD64x2 dual-core desktop. The system is running Debian AMD64 SID. Unfortunately, I experience system freezes. I'm seeing this too, not

Re: mozilla-browser

2006-10-31 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Tuesday 31 October 2006 14:56, Douglas Tutty wrote: I'm getting Etch setup on my new Athlon and am ready to install a full-featured web-browser. I can't find mozilla-browser listed although there is firefox. Is firefox full featured now? Is mozilla-browser dead or just not ready for

Re: when will nvidai-glx and nvidia-kernel-source hit etch? {Scanned}

2006-10-23 Thread Mike Reinehr
Henry, On Monday 23 October 2006 11:47, Henry Hollenberg wrote: Dean Hamstead wrote: you need to compile the kernel module for yourself R. Donald is the maintainer - hit site is here http://people.debian.org/~rdonald/index.php wack these lines in your /etc/apt/sources.list #use

Re: LVM root?

2006-10-11 Thread Mike Reinehr
Doug, I'm certainly no expert on this, but I have been using LVM2 for a year or so, so ... On Wednesday 11 October 2006 07:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 10:15:22PM +0200, Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) wrote: Le 08.10.2006 18:05:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a ?crit?: Obviously, I

Re: LVM root?

2006-10-11 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 08:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 09:20:06AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps more to the point, make sure you have room for several kernels in /boot. You don't have to uninstall a kernel in order to install a new one. If you are

Re: [OT] Need a little C programming help

2006-09-12 Thread Mike Reinehr
, relocating them as you suggested completely solved the problem. Thanks, also, for the compiling tips. I'll start experimenting with them. Sincerely, cmr On Tuesday 12 September 2006 07:36, Erik Mouw wrote: On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 05:44:37PM -0500, Mike Reinehr wrote: My apology for taking up

[OT] Need a little C programming help

2006-09-11 Thread Mike Reinehr
My apology for taking up the groups time with an off-topic request for help. I don't think that this has anything at all to do with 64-bit processing. What I know about c programming wouldn't take me five minutes to tell, so I'm easily stumped by compiler error messages. I have a very small c

Re: blank DVDs no recognized, other media OK

2006-08-29 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Tuesday 29 August 2006 09:05, Matthias Julius wrote: Lennart Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What model of drive? Any chance the DVD laser is toast on the drive, but the CD laser is OK? They are different lasers running different wavelength of light. Are you sure? I thought they

Re: how to setup KDE or Gnome

2006-08-28 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Monday 28 August 2006 14:43, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 01:02:31PM +0100, A.E.Lawrence wrote: Nobody has mentioned /etc/inittab in this thread so far. ISTR that I just had to assign a run level to include kde/gdm/whatever. Runlevel 2 is usually kept for text

Re: Where is the debian-amd64 howto?

2006-08-25 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Friday 25 August 2006 11:11 am, edwardsa wrote: I'm looking for the debian-amd64 howto. Google points to alioth, but that is now secured. Does this file reside anywhere else? Art Edwards Art, Here it is: http://haydn.debian.org/~intero-guest/debian-amd64-howto.html I think all the files

Re: Question : grub commands

2006-08-14 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Monday 14 August 2006 01:40 pm, Gnu-Raiz wrote: On Monday 14 August 2006 11:07, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Hello ! Just an easy question: Is there a difference between disable_timer_pin_1 and noapictimer at startup in grub ? If yes, what is the difference ? (This command is needed

Re: Question : grub commands

2006-08-14 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Monday 14 August 2006 03:22 pm, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 02:40:58PM -0500, Mike Reinehr wrote: ntp-simple couldn't be easier to install use and will keep your system time synchronized with the national time servers. I also would recommend ntpdate if you shut your

Re: Question : grub commands

2006-08-14 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Monday 14 August 2006 03:13 pm, Gnu-Raiz wrote: On Monday 14 August 2006 14:40, Mike Reinehr wrote: On Monday 14 August 2006 01:40 pm, Gnu-Raiz wrote: On Monday 14 August 2006 11:07, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Hello ! Just an easy question: Is there a difference between

Re: rxvt won't start

2006-05-19 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Sunday 07 May 2006 12:02 pm, Russ Cook wrote: Russ Cook wrote: Gnu-Raiz wrote: On Friday 28 April 2006 15:48, Russ Cook wrote: Aaron M. Ucko wrote: Russ Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm running gnome. From a xterminal, I try to start rxvt, and get this message: rxvt: can't

Re: ISO Burning problems

2005-12-06 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 12:42 pm, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 06:12:45PM +, antonio giulio wrote: with: mount -o loop image.iso /mnt/image mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom diff -ruN /mnt/image /mnt/cdrom diff has returned nothing. diff returning nothing

Re: Suggestions for a new AMD64 system

2005-11-22 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Tuesday 22 November 2005 03:29 pm, Jack Malmostoso wrote: On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 22:00:11 +0100, Lennart Sorensen wrote: d-i can do software raid1 just fine. Just don't try to setup the fakeraid in the bios, it won't use that, and you don't want to either. Thank you very much. As for LVM

Re: raidtools

2005-11-10 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Wednesday 09 November 2005 09:29 pm, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 02:16:32PM -0600, Mike Reinehr wrote: Raidtools2 is in the archive, [..] Actually it's not in unstable any more. My bad. I just took a quick look at the pool wasn't paying any attention

Re: raidtools

2005-11-09 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Wednesday 09 November 2005 01:38 pm, Jacob Bresciani wrote: I've got software raid up and running but before I send this server out to the production environment I wanted to test the hot swap SCSI drives. They are setup as a software mirror. I yanked one, and through in a blank drive, had

Re: Network Block Device

2005-09-28 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Saturday 24 September 2005 11:57 am, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Mike Reinehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This may not be an AMD64 question, but both systems involved are running Debian AMD64, so ... Does anyone know how to get a network block device (nbd) working, or if it can

Re: Network Block Device

2005-09-26 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Saturday 24 September 2005 11:57 am, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Mike Reinehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This may not be an AMD64 question, but both systems involved are running Debian AMD64, so ... Does anyone know how to get a network block device (nbd) working, or if it can

Network Block Device

2005-09-23 Thread Mike Reinehr
This may not be an AMD64 question, but both systems involved are running Debian AMD64, so ... Does anyone know how to get a network block device (nbd) working, or if it can be gotten to work? This instructions are very straight forward, but I've been fiddling with it all week long and haven't

Re: Searching for app availability before install

2005-07-19 Thread Mike Reinehr
Nigel, I think it's safe to say that almost all of the apps that are listed in the Debian package database are available for the AMD64 architecture, but there are some that can not be built for one reason or another. This link will point you to the packages file for the AMD64 version of Sarge:

Re: Almost there

2005-07-18 Thread Mike Reinehr
Gary, On Monday 18 July 2005 03:31 pm, Gary Hodges wrote: Frederik Schueler wrote: Hello, On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 01:07:22PM -0600, Gary Hodges wrote: pivot_root: No such file or directory /sbin/init: 432: cannot open dev/console: No such file Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! Make

Re: comments about hardware

2005-07-18 Thread Mike Reinehr
Faheem, On Monday 18 July 2005 12:36 am, Faheem Mitha wrote: Dear People, My bioinformatics research group at Duke is buying a server, which will mostly be used as a server, particularly for web based services. The idea here is that a user will submit a request for some bioinformatics

Re: Almost there

2005-07-18 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Monday 18 July 2005 05:52 pm, Gary Hodges wrote: snip ... /dev/sda1 (/boot) is ext2 and all the other partitions are ReiserFS.   I'm using the standard kernel included with the debian installer.  Note that I'm not using what is considered to be the stable installer, but a daily build I

Re: New 32bit packages for amd64

2005-07-14 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Thursday 14 July 2005 01:40 pm, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 18:22 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Hi, [snip] 37.5 cent packages? ;) (Or is that solely an Americanism?) I don't get that. Must be an

Re: Now that I have working box, any problems with LVM?

2005-06-21 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Tuesday 21 June 2005 09:34 am, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 02:17:24PM +, J.A. de Vries wrote: Goswin wrote me the same. Good to know. I might have made that mistake as I was under the impression that RAID on the ASUS A8V Deluxe was good. In general (there are a

Re: Clock problems

2005-05-31 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Monday 30 May 2005 03:53 pm, John Baab wrote: apt-get install ntp ntpdate also fixed the problem, but I would rather not have the extra service if its not needed. -Thanks for all the help, John John, Ntpdate, unlike ntp or ntp-simple, is not a service, per se, but just a program that

Re: Using Alioth Opteron net install to config MD raid1

2005-05-21 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Saturday 21 May 2005 02:53 am, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Anyone got any ideas? No ideas apart from being speachless. Doesn't look like an straight forward bug and fix. Thanks Ashley MfG         Goswin From a technical standpoint I certainly can not add anything to what Goswin

Re: How to install SMP kernel?

2005-05-19 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Thursday 19 May 2005 07:40 am, Rupert Heesom wrote: I have a dual Opteron machine onto which I've installed Debian using sid-amd64-netinst.iso. Now, I think this install only caters for a single cpu right? Is there an altenate ISO that would install an SMP ready kernel, or should I

Re: source.list

2005-05-18 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Wednesday 18 May 2005 04:47 am, DR GAVIN SEDDON wrote: Hi, I use the list in http://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html Gavin. On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 11:19 +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: On (18/05/05 01:12), Attila Kocsis wrote: Hi, Cuold anyone write

Cupsys package for sarge (was Re: cupsys package for sid)

2005-04-27 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Wednesday 27 April 2005 12:33 am, Michal Hajek wrote: Hello :) * Goswin von Brederlow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050426 16:04]: Currently removed pending manual rebuild against the sarge libc. Thanks everyone, now everything works fine. :) Best regards Michal I am trying to install cupsys

Re: SATA No partitionable media were found

2005-04-26 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Tuesday 26 April 2005 04:29 pm, Susanne Wenz wrote: Am Dienstag, 26. April 2005 20:28 schrieb Lennart Sorensen: On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 07:09:04PM +0200, Susanne Wenz wrote: I went to http://debian.inode.at/debian-amd64/debian-installer/2005-04-24/monolit hic and took the mini.iso. I

Re: [Fwd: Re: need advice for correct sources.list because of broken packages]

2005-04-09 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Saturday 09 April 2005 01:03 pm, A.E.Lawrence wrote: Can someone clarify this please? The FAQ, the AMD64 and the archive structure document (alioth seems to be down just now, so I haven't got the URIs) all differ just enough to be confusing :-) I find broken package dependencies in

Re: [Fwd: Re: need advice for correct sources.list because of broken packages]

2005-04-09 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Saturday 09 April 2005 02:54 pm, A.E.Lawrence wrote: Mike Reinehr wrote: The correct archives to be using are: deb http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/debian-pure64 sid main contrib non-free deb http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/debian-pure64 sarge main contrib non-free

Re: [Fwd: Re: need advice for correct sources.list because of broken packages]

2005-04-09 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Saturday 09 April 2005 04:31 pm, A.E.Lawrence wrote: I didn't see the resolutions in those earlier postings :-) But perhaps they went silent when things cleared. But this:- The following packages have unmet dependencies:      libc6-dev:

Re: cupsys page log

2005-03-31 Thread Mike Reinehr
, Mike Reinehr wrote: |On Wednesday 30 March 2005 09:53 am, Andrei Mikhailovsky wrote: |Hello everyone, | |I've got some issues with cups saving printing page log files. After |enabling the option (#PageLog /var/log/cups/page_log) in cupsd.conf |there is still no information saved in the file

Re: cupsys page log

2005-03-30 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 09:53 am, Andrei Mikhailovsky wrote: Hello everyone, I've got some issues with cups saving printing page log files. After enabling the option (#PageLog /var/log/cups/page_log) in cupsd.conf there is still no information saved in the file. I've googled for this

Re: grub SATA netinstall problem

2005-03-23 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 09:37 am, John Baab wrote: I think Mike's recomendation will achieve the same results as changing the partition where grub boots to, does anyone see any reason why one is better than the other? There is a better description of the difficulty GRUB has in relying on

Re: grub SATA netinstall problem

2005-03-22 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Monday 21 March 2005 11:54 pm, John Baab wrote: I am looking for some help with a netinstall grub problem. I am trying to install via the 2/20/05 sarge netinstall. The installation goes fine, but upon reboot I am getting error loading operating system I have taken notice that durring the

Re: aptitude loosing its mind?

2005-03-05 Thread Mike Reinehr
Ed, There are times that I certainly wondered what the h___ was going on! The first thing that comes to mind is that xfs was installed automatically to satisfy a dependency of some other program, which subsequently has been removed. (IIRC there are two different font servers that can be used

Re: Ubuntu with AMD64 Support

2005-01-28 Thread Mike Reinehr
Downloading as we speak, but at the rate it's coming, it'll be tomorrow before I get to test it. cmr On Friday 28 January 2005 11:34 am, Johannes Klug wrote: Hello! The Ubuntu Team has recently released [1] a new version of their live-cd distro. Hoary Hedgehog is available as a native

Re: Where are the unofficial sarge for amd64???

2005-01-07 Thread Mike Reinehr
Some time ago Goswin replied to a similar question of mine with the following statement: Add deb http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/debian-pure64 testing main non-free contrib the sarge tree is getting depopulated and will disapear soon. 6379 of ~8000 packages are rebuild with -all

Re: New to non-bootable-CD oriented ports

2004-12-16 Thread Mike Reinehr
Joaquin, By all means, bootable CD's are available. You should start here: http://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html In particular, the Chapter: Installing Debian GNU/Linux for amd64, discusses the resources available to install AMD64. Mike On Thursday 16

Util-Linux package seems to be missing some files

2004-12-10 Thread Mike Reinehr
others (but I haven't made a complete comparison). So, my question is, where are all the other files that should be in the util-linux package? Are they in another package, or is this an error by the package builder(s)? Thanks! Mike Reinehr -- Debian 'Sarge': Registered Linux User #241964

Re: Util-Linux package seems to be missing some files

2004-12-10 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Friday 10 December 2004 01:25 pm, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Mike Reinehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I did an AMD64 install from the Sarge repository a couple of weeks ago and things have been running well, until I discovered something curious this afternoon. I was going to use sfdisk

Re: Util-Linux package seems to be missing some files

2004-12-10 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Friday 10 December 2004 01:59 pm, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Mike Reinehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My apt sources.list was created by the monolithic.iso d-i from the sarge repository and I haven't made any changes to it since the install: #deb http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org

Origin Signature check failed

2004-11-27 Thread Mike Reinehr
I've been trying to complete a new installation from the Sarge repository today, using the current Debian Installer (monolithic/mini.iso). Mostly the install goes smoothly, until near the end when it attempts to do a final installation of a hundred or so packages. At this point I can not

Re: Origin Signature check failed (Solved)

2004-11-27 Thread Mike Reinehr
package. As to the question Isn't this in the FAQ, yet? -- Who knows? Who reads FAQ's? ;-) Mike On Saturday 27 November 2004 01:38 pm, Mike Reinehr wrote: I've been trying to complete a new installation from the Sarge repository today, using the current Debian Installer (monolithic/mini.iso

Re: installation stuck in loop

2004-08-27 Thread Mike Reinehr
a kernel and grub. THEN, you have a fully functional, bootable but basic, pure 64 bit system. cmr On Friday 27 August 2004 02:32 pm, Mike Reinehr wrote: Christian, I'm not sure if this is exactly what you are looking for -- I'm new to this list -- but I just did a successful AMD64 install