Bug filing advice needed: package uninstallable on amd64 only

2006-02-11 Thread cmetzler
Abiword is uninstallable on AMD64. It appears that the library package libenchant1c2 has been replaced by the package libenchant1c2a. This new package is available for AMD64; but the AMD64 Abiword port, and *only* the AMD64 port of Abiword, still has a dependency on the older libenchat1c2,

Re: Confirm needed: python2.3 (thus lots of other stuff) uninstallable from etch?

2006-02-05 Thread cmetzler
Simo Kauppi wrote: On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 06:12:51AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone else confirm this: } stax:/etc/apt# apt-get install python2.3 } Reading package lists... Done } Building dependency tree... Done } Package python2.3 is not available, but is referred to by

Re: DMA missing after install -- rebuild initrd? HOWTO?

2006-02-02 Thread cmetzler
Sorry for the delay in responding; work kept me offline for a while. Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 02:26:59AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ snip ] I've never built or rebuilt an initrd, or monkeyed with the contents of one. When I haven't been able to use a Debian

AMD64 Install (failure) report

2006-02-02 Thread cmetzler
Processor/Mobo: Athlon64 3800 Venice; ASUS A8N-SLI Premium IDE0 -- LiteOn DVD-ROM, WD 1200JB 120GB IDE1 -- WD 1200JB 120GB, WD 800JB 80GB SATA0 -- WD 2500KS 250GB PCI-E: nVidia 6800GS 256MB PCI: Creative SB Live 5.1 Install source: Etch Netinstall CD image dated 2006/01/11. A few weeks old,

DMA missing after install -- rebuild initrd? HOWTO?

2006-01-31 Thread cmetzler
Hi, After playing around for a while, I decided to go ahead and do my AMD64 Etch install for real. At the end of it, though, I got a surprise -- no DMA on any IDE devices. The drives are capable, the BIOS recognizes them as UDMA5, I tried a bunch of different 80-connector cables, and hdparm

Re: How big will the 32-bit chroot end up being? What goes in these days?

2006-01-23 Thread cmetzler
Gilles wrote: - cdrecord/cdrdao plus whatever front end you're using to call them These and k3b all work on amd64. Thanks for the info. I'd seen a few webpages (such as http://desktux.xs4all.nl/tips/amd64.php ) that indicated there were serious bugs in the AMD64 version that hadn't yet

Re: How big will the 32-bit chroot end up being? What goes in these days?

2006-01-23 Thread cmetzler
mtms wrote: On 23 Jan 2006, 05:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - cdrecord/cdrdao plus whatever front end you're using to call them Huh? I'm using them every day on my amd64 system. And xcdroast too :) Thanks. I'd read elsewhere that the AMD64 cdrdao was buggy, and the

Re: How big will the 32-bit chroot end up being? What goes in these days?

2006-01-23 Thread cmetzler
Hi; thanks for your reply. No need to cc me; I read the list. Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 05:34:13AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, as I understand it, the following stuff would need to go into the 32-bit chroot (assuming one wants/needs these things): - Sun's

Re: Sarge AMD64 installation won't boot

2006-01-23 Thread cmetzler
Robert Isaac wrote: Upgrading past 2.6.12 requires getting yaird or initramfstools installed on sarge somehow. It can be done however. Yaird is not too hard to backport. You could even save yourself some effort and install Yaird from backports.org :) OK, I have a dumbass question:

How big will the 32-bit chroot end up being? What goes in these days?

2006-01-22 Thread cmetzler
So, as I understand it, the following stuff would need to go into the 32-bit chroot (assuming one wants/needs these things): - Sun's J2RE - OpenOffice - Flash - RealPlayer/Helix/whatever - win32codecs + other misc A/V codecs one might scrounge up elsewhere - Any web browser that you want to

Re: Anyone willing to seed sarge amd64 isos?

2006-01-07 Thread cmetzler
Am following the discussion of jigdo with interest -- but in the meantime, no need to cc: me directly on all the posts; I'm subscribed to the list. Thanks! -c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Anyone willing to seed sarge amd64 isos?

2006-01-05 Thread cmetzler
Hi. Is there anyone (hopefully, more than one person) who's willing to seed sarge amd64 dvd ISOs for bittorrent for a while? I've been stuck at 39% and 24% for quite a while. Edit: well, it looks like someone has ESP, in that someone just started seeding within the last 30 minutes. Still, if

Re: Anyone willing to seed sarge amd64 isos?

2006-01-05 Thread cmetzler
I just started them, and someone started downloading them at 700 KB/s Probably me. Thanks muchly. Why didn't you just download them from one of the mirrors anyway? Honestly? I figured the AMD64 ISOs would be reasonably popular, so bt would go quickly; and at the same time, I've always