Re: Hello! from a newbie+ problems with debian for amd64+can't boot debian for i386 on amd64 from cd+can't extract sbm.bin from cd

2005-11-28 Thread Sven Mueller
Chris DiVirgilio wrote on 28/11/2005 20:35: On Nov 27, 2005, at 7:19 PM, Thomas Drillich wrote: if you are a real newby, you may wait until december. As I knew debian etch should be finished in december, and there amd64 should be one of the standard supported systems. December? Really?

Nice server board for AMD64/EM64T?

2005-11-23 Thread Sven Mueller
Hi. I'm going to replace a server (keeps crashing due to some unknown reason since about a month, ran for 1year rocksolid before - I was able to limit the source to be one of mainboard, processor or RAM), and because I definately want hardware RAID and already have 8 HDs in the old server (a

Re: Nice server board for AMD64/EM64T?

2005-11-23 Thread Sven Mueller
Soenke von Stamm wrote on 23/11/2005 16:35: Tyan Thunder K8SR S2881. I have one of them running under Linux in a high load [...] The board starts at €404, this ones is for 1U with only two slots. There are almost identical boards with more slots like Thunder K8SD Pro S2882. I found this

Re: installing Oracle on Debian AMD64

2005-10-31 Thread Sven Mueller
Lennart Sorensen wrote on 31/10/2005 15:41: On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 09:51:31PM +0200, Jean-Christophe Montigny wrote: Well, I am afraid I'm not quite postgresql-literate, and I live by the (perhaps false) assumption that PostgreSQL and MySQL are more or less the same : open source database

Re: installing Oracle on Debian AMD64

2005-10-31 Thread Sven Mueller
Adam Skutt wrote on 31/10/2005 18:33: Sven Mueller wrote: It locks finer than a single column? MySQL only locks that fine if you're blessed enough not to be using MyISAM. True. Postgresql locks at less than table-granularity all the time. Fine. I never said it wouldn't. Full-text

Re: Debian AMD64 Sarge released

2005-06-16 Thread Sven Mueller
Dr. Gabriel Pataky wrote on 16/06/2005 10:20: ich habe mir die dvd-iso-datei von sarge fr die amd64-er architektur heruntergeladen und auch problemlos gebrannt. die installation bricht jedoch bei libparted1.6-udeb erbarmungslos ab. der grund dessen ist mir schleierhaft. bitte um hilfe

Re: Debian AMD64 Sarge released

2005-06-09 Thread Sven Mueller
Lucio Pileggi wrote on 09/06/2005 16:26: Joerg Jaspert ha scritto: CD and DVD images will be made available on cdimage.debian.org, try http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/sarge-amd64/ as soon as the images are built, which should be today or tomorrow. In that directory I found iso,

Re: security packages on amd 64

2005-06-02 Thread Sven Mueller
Frederik Schueler wrote on 31/05/2005 15:36: Hello, See http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/05/msg4.html On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 09:13:49AM +0200, pedro machado wrote: Where can i find the security updates for amd 64 ? security updates for debian-amd64 sarge will be

Re: user dchroot does not work

2005-05-12 Thread Sven Mueller
Alexander Fieroch wrote on 12/05/2005 14:50: Javier Kohen wrote: I'm not sure this could cause that message, but does the user's home directory exist in the chroot? Yes the user's home directory does exist. It's a complete debian ia32 installation on a separate partition. The user's home

Re: Mirrors of AMD64

2005-05-08 Thread Sven Mueller
Joerg Jaspert wrote on 07/05/2005 18:17: As there are some questions about the mirror stuff I just put a small site together explaining the most important things to know. Look at it here: http://amd64.debian.net/~joerg/mirror.html Yes, we appreciate any new mirrors, so just mail me if you

Re: Release critical bugs for amd64/sarge

2005-05-06 Thread Sven Mueller
Andreas Jochens wrote on 06/05/2005 08:58: Of course there are still a few other packages which did not apply the necessary patches for amd64. However, I think that those packages and all their dependencies can simply be removed from the amd64/sarge release: Oh well, there are a few I would

Re: AMD64 archive move

2005-05-04 Thread Sven Mueller
Stephan Seitz wrote on 04/05/2005 17:45: On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 03:31:58PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: ftp://amd64.debian.net/debian work too. Is correct to use it? If you must. Http is prefered by almost everyone as it doesn't require makeing a new connection for every file and is

Re: cupsys broken in pure64 (testing)

2005-04-25 Thread Sven Mueller
Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote on 25/04/2005 19:06: A Dilluns 25 Abril 2005 16:05, Sven Mueller va escriure: David Liontooth wrote on 24/04/2005 19:15: Sven Mueller wrote: When trying to install cupsys/cupsys-bsd/cupsys-client from debian-pure64 testing, the installation fails because

Mirror traffic

2005-04-02 Thread Sven Mueller
hi. I somehow think I saw this discussion come up before, but I'm either too tired or too blind (or both) to find it: If I would set up a public debian-amd64 mirror, how much traffic would I need to expect? i.e. Could those who currently run mirrors please post the approximate network

Re: Normal buildtime for a kernel?

2005-03-23 Thread Sven Mueller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 23/03/2005 14:53: Well, but more than a half of the compile time up to 2/3rds account to system time, which I think is somewhat excessive. Sounds as if you don't have DMA enabled on the discs. What does 'hdparm -d' say about your disc(s)? -c might also be interesting.

syslinux and bootcd packages

2005-03-11 Thread Sven Mueller
Hi. I needed to create a bootable AMD64 CD yesterday and to get there, I installed a fairly minimal debian-pure64 (sarge) installation and created AMD64 packages for syslinux and bootcd (along with bootcd-amd64). While fixing bootcd to build and work on AMD64 was pretty trivial, building

Re: syslinux and bootcd packages

2005-03-11 Thread Sven Mueller
Kurt Roeckx wrote on 11/03/2005 19:03: On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 02:56:57PM +0100, Sven Mueller wrote: Hi. I needed to create a bootable AMD64 CD yesterday and to get there, I installed a fairly minimal debian-pure64 (sarge) installation and created AMD64 packages for syslinux and bootcd (along

Which netinst ISO to use for /debian-pure64 (Sarge)?

2005-03-04 Thread Sven Mueller
Hi. I used a netinst ISO from Feb 16th, but it has at least two issues: 1) libc6 is installed in a version not available in debian-pure64 and therefor build-essentials isn't installable unless the user specifically downgrades libc6 (and bash and base-files) 2) The Sysmlinks for the current

Problem with vncserver

2005-02-28 Thread Sven Mueller
Hi. the vncserver from the equally named package doesn't work for me. It always logs the same error: Feb 28 19:17:22 europa kernel: Xrealvnc[13691]: segfault at 95e2e810 rip 002a95c8ef57 rsp 007fb6c0 error 4 Any idea why this might be? Well, debugging a little further, it

un! What will happen when sarge becomes officially stable?

2005-02-21 Thread Sven Mueller
Hi. I have seen various diverging infos about what will happen to the AMD64 ports once Sarge becomes stable. So to have some more background on a few decisions (mostly for home use) I have to make: What will happen to the two AMD64 ports (pure-64 and gcc3.4) once Sarge becomes stable? Will

Re: What will happen when sarge becomes officially stable?

2005-02-21 Thread Sven Mueller
Goswin von Brederlow wrote on 21/02/2005 17:48: We plan to release an inofficial sarge-amd64 shortly after sarge (allow for a final sync and check that everything is fine, create CDs, DVDs, ...). Great. I don't mind it being released a bit later than the official sarge. Obviously it would be

Re: Tracking sarge

2005-02-05 Thread Sven Mueller
Kurt Roeckx wrote on 03/02/2005 18:24: On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 05:54:35PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: From what I heart you won't feel the difference. The advantage of a 64bit kernel lies in having more than 3GB address space (more than 4GB for 64bit) programs and the possibility of more

amd64 installation images

2004-09-06 Thread Sven Mueller
Hi. I am planning to deploy the amd64/pure64 version of Debian on a new system. However while investigating the netinst images at http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/debian-installer/daily/netboot/ I noticed that the initrd misses something I would need in there: the 3ware 3w-.ko and/or