On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
For amd64 there is no benefit in optimization for the specific cpu
since there aren't any more different models than amd64 and em46t
anyway. So the only benefit you get from a custom kernel is possibly
no initrd (that's why I use my own kernel)
Jan De Luyck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sunday 27 August 2006 20:48, Jack Malmostoso wrote:
On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 20:40:04 +0200, Jan De Luyck wrote:
Any pointers are most welcome!
The first question is: why do you compile your own kernel? Isn't the
Debian one enough?
I tend to
Hello all,
I managed today to get Debian installed on my desktop pc.
Said pc is an ABIT KN9-SLI board with an AMD 64x2 AM2 cpu.
I upgraded to Sid, and then went on to compile a custom kernel. I think I got
nearly everything right, but there are some things that I find very strange,
and would
On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 20:40:04 +0200, Jan De Luyck wrote:
Any pointers are most welcome!
The first question is: why do you compile your own kernel? Isn't the
Debian one enough? Does everything work OK with the Debian kernel?
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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
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
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
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.
Hi Craig:
I decided to follow your 2nd suggestion (for a non expert like me) to install
permanently ubuntu 5.10, albeit with much regret because I had always loved
the debian environment, people in the first place. I downloaded the ubuntu
*.iso and wrote the ISO 9660 but I forgot to check
I forgot a key point: my move to 64 is essentially to double the floating
point for the package mpqc, which i use on 32 but it is available as a debian
package for the testing. To write papers, sending mail or navigating on
internet i would have not thought to 64bit.
Hi Craig:
I decided to
Francesco Pietra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I forgot a key point: my move to 64 is essentially to double the floating
point for the package mpqc, which i use on 32 but it is available as a debian
package for the testing. To write papers, sending mail or navigating on
internet i would have
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 04:49:18PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
I forgot a key point: my move to 64 is essentially to double the floating
point for the package mpqc, which i use on 32 but it is available as a debian
package for the testing. To write papers, sending mail or navigating on
Francesco Pietra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi Craig:
I decided to follow your 2nd suggestion (for a non expert like me) to install
permanently ubuntu 5.10, albeit with much regret because I had always loved
the debian environment, people in the first place. I downloaded the ubuntu
*.iso
Not all of a move to ubuntu is good news. Be aware that it is _not_ like
Debian Stable. I tried using ubuntu to install on a AMD64 system and tried to
move to Debian stable - turned into a huge mess.
Ubuntu could be a version of Debian with 'pinning' of certain packages and a
few special
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
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
On Sunday 12 March 2006 15:07, Tony Freeman wrote:
I was just on the Ubuntu site
http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/flight5
... and noted that they have a checklist of sorts for people to
report back on their installation and experience using the
software.
( scoll down the page to the
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 03:49:54AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
and I never messed with an initrd. My understanding is that the purpose
of an initrd is to provide an image of a RAMdisk containing the modules
the kernel needs to access the root file system; but if the hardware and
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 05:46:48PM -0500, Robert Isaac wrote:
You could even save yourself some effort and install Yaird from backports.org
:)
It wasn't there when I did it. :)
Len Sorensen
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On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 03:49:54AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK, I have a dumbass question: why is yaird necessary at all? Or more
accurately, why is an initrd necessary at all? Is it something about
2.6.x kernels? Back when I built 2.4.x kernels for my Athlon XP machine,
I follwed
Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 09:09:23AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It worked beautifully.
A day or two ago, the URL seems to have changed.
http://tinyplanet.ca/~lsorense/amd64/
works now.
I didn't know port 81 had ever worked on that machine. It is run by one
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 12:21:10PM -0600, Ken Bloom wrote:
The package may have been renamed to linux-image-* instead of
kernel-image-*.
It certainly would have been. :)
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On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 09:49:41PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote: On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 10:50:22PM +, Jo Shields wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't accepted the new AMD-64 box the computer store has
built for me, because I
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 09:09:23AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It worked beautifully.
A day or two ago, the URL seems to have changed.
http://tinyplanet.ca/~lsorense/amd64/
works now.
I didn't know port 81 had ever worked on that machine. It is run by one
of my friends.
I now have
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 :)
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:
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 09:49:41PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 10:50:22PM +, Jo Shields wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I haven't accepted the new AMD-64 box the computer store has
built for me, because I can't get it to run in 64-bit mode.
I provided
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 09:55:15PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry to sound terminally stupid, but I don't know how to translate a
URL like
http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian-amd64/debian-amd64/pool/main/
into a deb line for /etc/apt/sources.list
And how does aptitude figure out which
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I haven't accepted the new AMD-64 box the computer store has
built for me, because I can't get it to run in 64-bit mode.
I provided the sarge net-install CD's for both AMD-64 and the older
386 architectures.
The netinstall for AMD64 went fine up to a point (except it
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 01:52:19PM -0900, Greg Madden wrote:
I use debian.csail.mit.edu.
Sorry to sound terminally stupid, but I don't know how to translate a
URL like
http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian-amd64/debian-amd64/pool/main/
into a deb line for /etc/apt/sources.list
And how does
Really i think that the system had a problem with some network cards or
some Motherboards, because I try to install debian AMD64 on my new MSI
K8N Neo4 that use nvidia nforce 4 chipset and Debian AMD64 didn't detect
I'm running 32 bit Sarge on the same hardware (K8N Neo4) with kernel
2.6.13.1
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 09:17:01PM -0400, Julian Bolivar wrote:
Really i think that the system had a problem with some network cards or
some Motherboards, because I try to install debian AMD64 on my new MSI
K8N Neo4 that use nvidia nforce 4 chipset and Debian AMD64 didn't detect
any network
Hi,
Really i think that the system had a problem with some network cards or
some Motherboards, because I try to install debian AMD64 on my new MSI
K8N Neo4 that use nvidia nforce 4 chipset and Debian AMD64 didn't detect
any network card during the install process and after that. When the
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 05:43:50PM -0400, Matthias Julius wrote:
You should set the Mail-Followup-To header appropriately. Otherwise I
guess many mailreaders default to CC the author.
Mail-Followup-To is ignored by many mail clients too, given it doesn't
appear to actually be a standard.
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 08:40:00AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 05:43:50PM -0400, Matthias Julius wrote:
You should set the Mail-Followup-To header appropriately. Otherwise I
guess many mailreaders default to CC the author.
Mail-Followup-To is ignored by many
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 10:57:06PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
Which Mutt are you using? The one I've used for years does certainly use
the Mail-Followup-To header when I list List reply.
Hmm, I thought it used the mailing list header. Certainly when hitting
reply it just uses the from field.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) writes:
Mail-Followup-To is ignored by many mail clients too, given it doesn't
appear to actually be a standard.
You are right. It is not a standard. It is just a proposal. But, I
think it is usefull. And I think people shoul use it. That way it
might
I'm suscribed to many debian-related lists, this seems to be the only one
where people reply to the list in any way they want to.
When people answer the poster directly instead of the list, could they at
least cc the list name without adding any extra garbage anywhere in that cc
header.
It's
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 06:31:07PM -0400, jmdeleu wrote:
It's becoming complicated to write procmail recipes.
It shouldn't be - just match on the X-Mailing-List or List-Id headers.
Hamish
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On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 12:21:36AM -0400, Xiaozheng Ma wrote:
I am installing AMD64 to my new computer, which has Abit ax8 motherboard.
The installer could not find network device (or configed my network) with
auto-detect DHCP option. After I manually set the network ip etc, It still
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 02:35:18AM -0300, Stephen Cormier wrote:
I have a Abit KV8 Pro with I think the same netcard builtin and it would
not recognize it either. Try using the CTRL + ALT +F2 keys at the same
time to switch to the second virtual terminal then use modprobe
via-velocity to
On September 1, 2005 11:21 am, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 02:35:18AM -0300, Stephen Cormier wrote:
I have a Abit KV8 Pro with I think the same netcard builtin and it
would not recognize it either. Try using the CTRL + ALT +F2 keys at
the same time to switch to the
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 12:00:25PM -0300, Stephen Cormier wrote:
Thanks for the information I had experienced the same problem with the
installer and thought that the Giga lan was the same with the newer via
chipset they have on the board. BTW please do not CC me I am subscribed
and read
On September 1, 2005 12:59 pm, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 12:00:25PM -0300, Stephen Cormier wrote:
Thanks for the information I had experienced the same problem with
the installer and thought that the Giga lan was the same with the
newer via chipset they have on the
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 02:04:08PM -0300, Stephen Cormier wrote:
Aside from your opinion of mail reader design decisions it is against
the Debian mailing list code of conduct to CC people unless
specifically asked to do so.
I will try to remember to hit the correct key.
If only all mailing
Stephen Cormier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Aside from your opinion of mail reader design decisions it is against
the Debian mailing list code of conduct to CC people unless
specifically asked to do so.
You should set the Mail-Followup-To header appropriately. Otherwise I
guess many
Dear All,
I am installing AMD64 to my new computer, which has Abit ax8
motherboard. The installer could not find network device (or
configed my network) with auto-detect DHCP option. After I
manually set the network ip etc, It still couldn't work. The ax8
has an integrated network card (i
On September 1, 2005 01:21 am, Xiaozheng Ma wrote:
Dear All,
I am installing AMD64 to my new computer, which has Abit ax8
motherboard. The installer could not find network device (or configed
my network) with auto-detect DHCP option. After I manually set the
network ip etc, It still couldn't
On September 1, 2005 01:21 am, Xiaozheng Ma wrote:
Dear All,
I am installing AMD64 to my new computer, which has Abit ax8
motherboard. The installer could not find network device (or configed
my network) with auto-detect DHCP option. After I manually set the
network ip etc, It still couldn't
Tobias wrote:
-- Hi,
first of all I want to thank anyone who made this AMD64 port possible.
But now here are my experiences:
The system is a MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum (S939 nForce4 Ultra) with a SATA-2 HDD
on the primary nForce SATA-2 port.
For my first installation attempt I used the 125MB
Hi,
first of all I want to thank anyone who made this AMD64 port possible.
But now here are my experiences:
The system is a MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum (S939 nForce4 Ultra) with a SATA-2 HDD
on the primary nForce SATA-2 port.
For my first installation attempt I used the 125MB netinst iso
Hi,
(sorry to send this again but the first time it went to the false thread
because I'm really stupid ;-)
first of all I want to thank anyone who made this AMD64 port possible.
But now here are my experiences:
The system is a MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum (S939 nForce4 Ultra) with a SATA-2 HDD
on
Tobias Prousa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,
first of all I want to thank anyone who made this AMD64 port possible.
But now here are my experiences:
The system is a MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum (S939 nForce4 Ultra) with a SATA-2 HDD
on the primary nForce SATA-2 port.
For my first installation
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For my first installation attempt I used the 125MB netinst iso (2005-01-24 I
think). Installation worked quite fine with that one exception that it had no
networking modules and no support for [reiserfs | ext3 | xfs ] so I had to
use ext2 which I really don't like for a
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 04:38:00PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
If I get the idea correctly, this is what happens basically:
1) kernel and initrd get loaded
2) modules from initrd are loaded as far as they are needed to get
additional software (packages, modules) from the net.
Sven Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Goswin von Brederlow [u] wrote on 06/09/2004 21:04:
Sven Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am planning to deploy the amd64/pure64 version of Debian on a new
system. However while investigating the netinst images at
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
Sven Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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
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