Re: Newbie in AMD64

2011-11-26 Thread Whit Hansell
Jose, Have Wheezy on pretty much the same type of hardware as you are installing onto and works fine. I always try to use current netinst or card sized iso as it makes more sense to bring files over net rather than make a bunch of dvd's and then find a problem halfway thru w. one of the

Newbie in AMD64

2011-10-18 Thread Instruisto Jose
Dear friends, I intend to install for the first time the Debian 6.0 AMD64 in a machine with: HD SATA Seagate model ST3500418AS Motherboard Gigabyte (GA-M61PM-S2) for AMD soquet AM2, processor AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4000+ (2000 MHz) Video nVidia GeForce 8400 GS Now I'm reading

Re: Newbie in AMD64

2011-10-18 Thread Vasileios Karaklioumhs
You are good to go.Don't worry. Instruisto Jose instr...@yahoo.com.br wrote: Dear friends, I intend to install for the first time the Debian 6.0 AMD64 in a machine with: HD SATA Seagate model ST3500418AS Motherboard Gigabyte (GA-M61PM-S2) for AMD soquet AM2, processor AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual

Re: Newbie in AMD64

2011-10-18 Thread Matthew Heggie
Whenever issues arise, they can be fixed, don't reinstall the whole system... It isn't Windows. Work out your problem and learn from it. On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Instruisto Jose instr...@yahoo.com.brwrote: Dear friends, I intend to install for the first time the Debian 6.0 AMD64 in

Newbie Question

2006-05-12 Thread Alexander Samad
Hi Finaly found the amd64 mailing list. Browsing through the mailing list archives I noticed that there are several locations to point my apt sources.lst I have 2 machines running amd64 , 1 I have setup with apt-proxy (what are other people using ?) and I point to

Re: Newbie Question

2006-05-12 Thread Raimund Jacob
Alexander Samad wrote: Hi! I have 2 machines running amd64 , 1 I have setup with apt-proxy (what are other people using ?) i found apt-proxy to be too much of a pain to setup. I just share /var/cache/apt over nfs between several hosts (i386 and amd64) - add the lock mount option, at some

Re: Newbie Question

2006-05-12 Thread Dan Serban
Raimund Jacob wrote: Alexander Samad wrote: Hi! I have 2 machines running amd64 , 1 I have setup with apt-proxy (what are other people using ?) i found apt-proxy to be too much of a pain to setup. I just share /var/cache/apt over nfs between several hosts (i386 and amd64) - add the

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

2005-12-11 Thread Martin Baldan
it once you have a working connection. Excuse the clumsy newbie description, but I was not sure I understood your questions. In any case, the problem was solved by running dhclient after the modprobe thing. I'm not sure how to check those DNS settings, though. Anyway, I was kind of frustrated because I

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

2005-12-06 Thread Martin Baldan
Hi! I've just followed your advice and it seems to have worked (the DHCP detection was successful) but I still can't connect to the internet ;( I'm a bit lost because the installer keeps asking me about ppp configuration, my modem and the ISP phone number, but that's not the right thing, because

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

2005-12-06 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 06:02:43PM +0100, Martin Baldan wrote: I've just followed your advice and it seems to have worked (the DHCP detection was successful) but I still can't connect to the internet ;( I'm a bit lost because the installer keeps asking me about ppp configuration, my modem

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

2005-11-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 05:02:42AM +0100, Martin Baldan wrote: Hi! 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. That's cool! I thought it would take a

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

2005-11-29 Thread cbergmann
Hi Martin! I have no experience with nforce4 boards, so I can't give you much help here. However, I would suggest to add the module for your network card to the file /etc/modules. On booting, the network card wich is detectetd first becomes eth0, and the one detected second eth1 (this was

Re: [-?-SPAM-?-] 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 cbergmann
Hi Martin, If you are new to linux, I would definitely suggest to start with i386 Debian. amd64 is not officially supported, and it still is a little bit tricky to get everything working. If your PC is booting any CD, it should also be able to boot the i386 installation CDs, I have done this

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 Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 10:19:14PM +0100, Martin Baldan wrote: Hello everyone! I've been wanting gradually move to linux for years, but was afraid because, due to academic requierements (specific applications I *must* use), I still need to have winXP installed on my computer for some time to

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 Chris DiVirgilio
On Nov 27, 2005, at 7:19 PM, Thomas Drillich wrote: Am Sonntag, 27. November 2005 22:19 schrieb Martin Baldan: Again, my kindest greetings to everyone, sorry for every piece of missing information or dumb questions. if you are a real newby, you may wait until december. As I knew debian

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?

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 Daniel Foote
Hello... Just to add my little bit... I recently bought a new machine, which was NForce4 based, like yours. When I did my net install, it could not get an address (DHCP, from a machine on my internal net). I didn't set it manually. Instead, I went to a terminal (hit CTRL+ALT+F2 during the

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

2005-11-27 Thread Martin Baldan
Hello everyone! I've been wanting gradually move to linux for years, but was afraid because, due to academic requierements (specific applications I *must* use), I still need to have winXP installed on my computer for some time to come. I tried dual boot with

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

2005-11-27 Thread Thomas Drillich
Am Sonntag, 27. November 2005 22:19 schrieb Martin Baldan: Hello everyone! I've been wanting gradually move to linux for years, but was afraid because, due to academic requierements (specific applications I *must* use), I still need to have winXP installed on my computer for some time to

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

2005-11-27 Thread Martin Baldan
Hi!1) Why don't I have permission to extract the sbm.bin file? How can I solve that? Don't think its a good way to trying to extract something, may you've burned your cd in a wrong way. Did you setup your burning software in the correct way to create a bootable image?Definitely! A while later I

newbie question

2005-11-06 Thread Danny tiberman
hello, I am trying to compile kernel 2.6.12 but I am getting kernel panic apparently it does not recognize my sata disk does anyone got suggestions ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: newbie question

2005-11-06 Thread Chris Wakefield
On November 6, 2005 02:00 am, Danny tiberman wrote: hello, I am trying to compile kernel 2.6.12 but I am getting kernel panic apparently it does not recognize my sata disk does anyone got suggestions ? Make sure you have support for promise sata support in block devices for a start.

Newbie question - installation problems

2004-10-20 Thread Ray Lanza
I've just installed debian on an athlon 64 machine using the netinstall iso. I have my sources.list pointed towards debian-amd64.alioth.org/sarge/ testing. Is this right? Many of the things I try to install fail authentication, is that expected? thanks, ray

Re: Newbie question - installation problems

2004-10-20 Thread Michael Vang
Ray Lanza wrote: I've just installed debian on an athlon 64 machine using the netinstall iso. I have my sources.list pointed towards debian-amd64.alioth.org/sarge/ testing. Is this right? Many of the things I try to install fail authentication, is that expected? I'm real new to this, having just

Re: Newbie question - installation problems

2004-10-20 Thread Ernest ter Kuile
I'm not sure this the best advis, but to solve this, I got rid of package debsig-verify. without this package verification isn't done, so all packages are installed regardless of sig. Don't know why sigs check fail. may be because the amd64 packages aren't signed by the authors. my

Re: newbie last try

2004-10-07 Thread Thomas J. Zeeman
Hi, 1. I am unable to have windows in option for boot-up in GRUB. During [snip] This is an old bug I reported several months ago already. It is still not fixed. From what I remember the installer for AMD64 does not have the necessary scripts to recognize a Windows partition on NTFS. The fix

Re: Re: newbie last try

2004-10-07 Thread Nils Nordman
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 09:22:01AM +0200, Thomas J. Zeeman wrote: 2. When I finish installing the base system and bootloader and reboot, I constantly have the same code consistently repeating in the shell: nv_sata: primary device added nv_sata: primary device removed nv_sata:

Re: newbie last try

2004-10-07 Thread Pete Harlan
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 09:22:01AM +0200, Thomas J. Zeeman wrote: 1. I am unable to have windows in option for boot-up in GRUB. During [snip] This is an old bug I reported several months ago already. It is still not fixed. What is the bug, exactly? I have grub booting into Windows XP on

newbie last try

2004-10-06 Thread Ross D
Sorry for the repeat, but my system is unusable at the moment and I wanted to give it one last try before I completely forget debian and settle for andother distro. 1. I am unable to have windows in option for boot-up in GRUB. During the installation process for the bootloader, it says I have

newbie tusing debian-installer

2004-09-27 Thread Ross D
Whoever can help: I'm definitely a newbie, just built my first custom-built computer, and after Mandrakelinux failed to give me the control and driver support I needed, I'm trying Debian GNU/Linux. I tried the amd64 debian-installer (got the current net .iso from alioth) and at the step where

Re: newbie

2004-09-04 Thread Andreas Jochens
On 04-Sep-04 06:18, Peter Cordes wrote: You can run i386 stuff. E.g. readseq is broken on amd64 (pure64 gcc 3.4), In which way is it broken? (Too bad my new favourite hex editor hte isn't available on AMD64 :( 'apt-get install ht' should work for the amd64/gcc-3.4 archive now :)

Re: newbie

2004-08-31 Thread Sythos
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 01:26:07PM +0200, Thomas J. Zeeman wrote: If I install amd64 port can I execute old i386 apps? Yes. See the AMD64 FAQ/HOWTO on the ports page for more info. The chroot is the only solution or in a little future there is a pissibility to run i386 apps in general

Status of AMD64 - newbie

2004-07-19 Thread Ferenc Kubinszky
Hello, Now I have my Athlon 64 for 72 hours ;} I wondering if AMD64 port is stable enough to use it on my Athlon64... I use Deian SID (i386) on my machines for a long time, so if it is almost as stable as SID, I'll try it. What do you think, should I try? Best regards, Kubi

Re: Status of AMD64 - newbie

2004-07-19 Thread Andreas Richter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ferenc Kubinszky wrote: | Hello, Hi, | Now I have my Athlon 64 for 72 hours ;} Congratualtions ;) | I wondering if AMD64 port is stable enough to use it on my Athlon64... | I use Deian SID (i386) on my machines for a long time, so if it is almost | as

Re: Status of AMD64 - newbie

2004-07-19 Thread zeeman
Hi! | I wondering if AMD64 port is stable enough to use it on my Athlon64... | I use Deian SID (i386) on my machines for a long time, so if it is almost | as stable as SID, I'll try it. | | What do you think, should I try? Yes. Try it. For me debian-amd64 works ok. Most i programming,

Re: Status of AMD64 - newbie

2004-07-19 Thread Andreas Knüpfer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi, everything that is not available in pure64 so far can easily be installed into a chroot environment from the i386 version. see http://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/1314/21/debian-amd64-howto.html how to set up this most comfortably. this

Re: Status of AMD64 - newbie

2004-07-19 Thread Thomas J. Zeeman
I saw on the Debian-website, that Mozilla (suite, Firefox, Thunderbird and so on) and OpenOffice aren't availible for pure64 at the moment. Is that right or are the programs now in the tree? I need for my system the following programs: -Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird This one is usually

Re: Status of AMD64 - newbie

2004-07-19 Thread Leopold Palomo Avellaneda
Hi, I have read this thread and as Ferenc Kubinszky I'm newbie in debian-amd64. Howeber my question is about how to install it. The amd64 is my box and at home I have a dial modem conection, so apt- is only posible by cdrom/dvd. So, there're some placw where I can download a dvd/cd