Re: please summarize amd64 installation steps

2006-05-22 Thread Craig Hagerman
When I did a fresh install of Debian amd64 (couple years ago?) I booted from a live CD (ubuntu has a 64 bit live CD) and did everything from there. ie. partition the disk, create a chroot to where you want the deb root partition, install debootstrap etc and go from there. If you are that

Re: please summarize amd64 installation steps

2006-05-22 Thread Francesco Pietra
Hi Craig: You may be right but let me explain, hopefully in the interest to part of the audience too. I am a chemist/biologist and my scope with the workstation is to carry out mechanical and quantum mechanical calculations on molecules. Which cannot be done at any useful level with a pc.

please summarize amd64 installation steps

2006-05-21 Thread Francesco Pietra
Hi all: I have followed with particular attention in the last few days all issues on this list related to amd64 debian installation. Just because I have now finally everything ready for a fresh installation on a fresh ready workstation equipped with Tyan K8WE S2895 (bearing video card Pixelview

Re: please summarize amd64 installation steps

2006-05-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Francesco Pietra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all: I have followed with particular attention in the last few days all issues on this list related to amd64 debian installation. Just because I have now finally everything ready for a fresh installation on a fresh ready workstation equipped