Wheezy will not install on many IA64 systems. See bug #711135 for
details.
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Package: debian-installer
Version: Jessie
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
I did a clean install using the netboot.tar.gz +pxe method,
selecting the XFCE desktop environment. But when the machine booted,
it presented a Gnome desktop environment. I expected to see XFCE.
XFCE is present, and
>>>>> "Petter" == Petter Reinholdtsen writes:
Petter> [Peter Chubb]
>> It's more than that -- cat /proc/partitions doesn't show the stick
>> at all. I suspect that the USB stick wasn;t recognised when it was
>> plugged in.
Petter> Rig
>>>>> "Petter" == Petter Reinholdtsen writes:
Petter> [Peter Chubb]
>> 2. This system uses broadcom NICs that need firmware. I put the
>> firmware onto a FAT-formatted USB stick, but the machine does not
>> recognise the stick when plugged in. lsm
stick, but the machine does not
recognise the stick when plugged in. lsmod on the console does not
show usb_storage in the list of loaded modules after a failed
attempt.
Peter C
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For some reason the linux kernel on the install disk wants to label
this serial port ttyS1 not ttyS0 --- even though the previous Linux
installation labelled it ttyS0.
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...ready.
Probing EDD (edd=off to disable)...
Then I see a blank screen and nothing else happens for at least
fifteen minutes (that was a long as I had patience for).
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load them from floppy. In general,
Itanium machines have no floppy drive.
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with a subje
>>>>> "Charles" == Charles Abdouch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Charles> Do you mean the HP rx2100 Itanium system? I haven't heard of
Charles> a rx2200 but maybe it's someone else's.
RX2600, I think. Sorry, I mistyped the number. It
For what it's worth, I tried the `etch' installer from
http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-ia64/current/images/netboot.tar.gz
on the RX2200 with the same result.
I can boot via DHCP with a home-built zx1defconfig top-of-tree kernel
from kernel.org.
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For an i2000 (Merced), running on the VGA console, the initial splash
screen looks awful ... it seems to have lots of weird characters that
don't display on it. And the kernel seems to hang straight after
elilo has loaded it.
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.
The disk version is: Debian GNU/Linux testing "Lenny" - Official
Snapshot ia64 NETINST Binary-1 20070510-09:08
I also tried the `business card' image with the same result.
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uot;));
+exit(1);
+ }
+ if (mode == K_UNICODE)
+set_charset("unicode");
+ }
+ }
args = argv + optind - 1;
/* set up the first input file, if any */
yywrap();
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erwise the
installation of the kernel fails when depmod is run.
3. (The biggy). The default partitioning doesn't leave a FAT16
partition at the start of the disc for elilo to install a boot image
on.
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You are lost in a ma
> "Richard" == Richard Hirst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Richard> Peter, can you give us any more info on what you did to
Richard> determine that the CD didn't appear to be bootable?
Put it down to user error. I just reburnt the CD, and this time EFI can see
the filesystem. Maybe my burn o
Package: install
Version: Woody
I tried to install cvs on my laptop using apt-get cvs
apt-get also installed debconf and perl-5.6-base
perl-5.6-base seems to have broken a number of things.
As remedial action, I:
-- removed perl-5.6-base
-- fixed the links from /usr/bin/perl to /etc/al
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