amd64 debian installation steps

2006-05-23 Thread Francesco Pietra
Hi Goswin: I have seen your two further e-mails. Thank you indeed. I started with the debian amd64 testing indicated previously (below) with a plan to install pure 64bit and then a chroot for 32bit. I badly started too late in the evening. Hardware is recognized as far as I could see: DHCP

Which AMD64 installer iso to use?

2006-05-23 Thread Karl Schmidt
OK - this is rather strange. There are iso downloads at : http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ and at http://amd64.debian.net/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-amd64/beta2/images/netboot/mini.iso The daily builds listed at http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ seem to

Bug#367771: librmagick-ruby1.8: RMagick library segfaults on startup on amd64 SMP

2006-05-23 Thread kirstin penelope rhys
On Sunday 21 May 2006 17:59, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: On 17/05/06 at 17:28 -0400, kirstin penelope rhys wrote: Package: librmagick-ruby1.8 Version: 1.6.0-1 Severity: important Just loading the RMagick library causes a segfault. But the imagemagick libraries run fine. The package won't

Dual booting 64-bit and 32-bit kernels

2006-05-23 Thread A J Stiles
If I partition my drive appropriately, can I use LILO to dual-boot a 32-bit kernel and a 64-bit kernel with {at least} a shared /home and swap space, but separate / partitions? I think it should be possible, this way, to keep all the nasty binary-only stuff tucked out of the way in a

Re: amd64 installation

2006-05-23 Thread Francesco Pietra
Hi Karl: In fact I recovered from my mental mess, reasoning approximately as you below. I started yesterday (too late in the day!) the installation and sent a preliminary positive feedback to the list and in particular to Goswin - who generously helped me patiently - a preliminary positive

Re: amd64 installation

2006-05-23 Thread Francesco Pietra
Hi Alexander: I need a large disk space during the computations. As already reported preliminarily, I started positively with pure 64 (testing installer), aimed at 32 chroot. I'll resume the installation later today. Hardware was recognized (and etherned was OK on nviadia, not on ethernet or

Re: sun-java5-plugin on amd64

2006-05-23 Thread Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh)
Le 23.05.2006 06:28:08, Hans a écrit : Am Montag, 22. Mai 2006 18:39 schrieb Wolfgang Mader: Does this work for you? If I add this line to source.list and update I get: Can not access list /var/lib/apt/lists/geole...-amd64_Packages If I look under /var/lib/apt/lists there is a list for

Re: Uninstall 32bit env

2006-05-23 Thread antonio giulio
the chroot is only a directory and could be removed as usually, ... sorry misunderstanding for my bad english:) is it possible run firefox32 and wine32 by lib32-package? Thanks, Giulio

Re: Dual booting 64-bit and 32-bit kernels

2006-05-23 Thread Scott Reese
A J Stiles wrote: If I partition my drive appropriately, can I use LILO to dual-boot a 32-bit kernel and a 64-bit kernel with {at least} a shared /home and swap space, but separate / partitions? I think it should be possible, this way, to keep all the nasty binary-only stuff tucked out

Re: Which AMD64 installer iso to use?

2006-05-23 Thread Francesco Pietra
This is further confusing me. I reported last night to this list of successful (up to the stage of partitioning disks, when I had to delay the process because it was getting too late and I was unable from manual partitioning to get the tool for partitioning) installation of amd64 debian testing

Re: counting scsi hosts

2006-05-23 Thread H. Wilmer
Jim Crilly wrote: More stuff is configurable without a recompile. If I add/change hardware I don't have to do anything unless it's something required for booting and even then updating my initrd is simple. And I have run into cases where reloading modules will fix things, Ok, that are

Re: install-mbr on amd64?

2006-05-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 09:28:07PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: man grub-install: grub-install copies GRUB images into the DIR/boot directory specfied by --root-directory, and uses the grub shell to install grub into the boot sector. Your command line would

Re: install-mbr on amd64?

2006-05-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 02:07:54AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Then pull a disk (the right one) and see it stop booting. From grub-install: # Usage: getraid_mdadm mddevice # Routine to find a physical device from an md device # If found, the first grub BIOS device (from device.map)

Re: install-mbr on amd64?

2006-05-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 02:09:27PM +0200, Alexander Sieck wrote: Goswin is right. I have installed etch on amd64 and configured RAID1, LVM and grub in d-i. # BEGIN-CLI deb64a:~# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/md1 1829101

Re: counting scsi hosts

2006-05-23 Thread Jim Crilly
On 05/23/06 02:34:35PM +0200, H. Wilmer wrote: Jim Crilly wrote: More stuff is configurable without a recompile. If I add/change hardware I don't have to do anything unless it's something required for booting and even then updating my initrd is simple. And I have run into cases where

Re: counting scsi hosts

2006-05-23 Thread H. Wilmer
Jim Crilly wrote: anything by compiling them in statically. I'm looking at it from the other direction, with initrd so easy to create, what's the advantage of not using modules? Ok, maybe it's just me thinking that I gain reliability whith some things compiled in and others not, in an

Re: Which AMD64 installer iso to use?

2006-05-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Karl Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK - this is rather strange. There are iso downloads at : http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ This is just the general overview page and links isos from other places. and at

Re: Dual booting 64-bit and 32-bit kernels

2006-05-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
A J Stiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If I partition my drive appropriately, can I use LILO to dual-boot a 32-bit kernel and a 64-bit kernel with {at least} a shared /home and swap space, but separate / partitions? I think it should be possible, this way, to keep all the nasty binary-only

Re: Uninstall 32bit env

2006-05-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
antonio giulio [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the chroot is only a directory and could be removed as usually, ... sorry misunderstanding for my bad english:) is it possible run firefox32 and wine32 by lib32-package? Thanks, Giulio firefox I believe not yet. wine yes. MfG Goswin --

Re: Still having random crashes after installing X with nvidia

2006-05-23 Thread Andrew Schulman
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 08:48:44AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless I get some help from this list, the next thing I'll be trying is going throuth the list of optional addons to X that dpkg-reconfigure xorg-server provides and taking them out. Things like direct rendering and

Re: Uninstall 32bit env

2006-05-23 Thread antonio giulio
the chroot is only a directory and could be removed as usually, ... sorry misunderstanding for my bad english:) is it possible run firefox32 and wine32 by lib32-package? Thanks, Giulio firefox I believe not yet. wine yes. On Suse (10.1) running firefox is possible with flash plugin on

Re: Uninstall 32bit env

2006-05-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
antonio giulio [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the chroot is only a directory and could be removed as usually, ... sorry misunderstanding for my bad english:) is it possible run firefox32 and wine32 by lib32-package? Thanks, Giulio firefox I believe not yet. wine yes. On Suse (10.1)

Re: Dual booting 64-bit and 32-bit kernels

2006-05-23 Thread Sven Krahn
On 5/23/06, A J Stiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I partition my drive appropriately, can I use LILO to dual-boot a 32-bitkernel and a 64-bit kernel with{at least}a shared /home and swap space,but separate / partitions?I use such configuration with GRUB but I don't see any reason why this

Re: Dual booting 64-bit and 32-bit kernels

2006-05-23 Thread Jorge Martí Sola
El mar, 23-05-2006 a las 10:09 +0100, A J Stiles escribió: If I partition my drive appropriately, can I use LILO to dual-boot a 32-bit kernel and a 64-bit kernel with {at least} a shared /home and swap space, but separate / partitions? I think it should be possible, this way, to keep all

Re: counting scsi hosts

2006-05-23 Thread Jim Crilly
On 05/23/06 04:42:26PM +0200, H. Wilmer wrote: Jim Crilly wrote: anything by compiling them in statically. I'm looking at it from the other direction, with initrd so easy to create, what's the advantage of not using modules? Ok, maybe it's just me thinking that I gain reliability whith