Installing Debian (Sarge, 64 bit) on AM2 platform fails
Hello!
Earlier this month AMD released their DDR-2 platform AM2 for regular
users. So I got myself some hardware to build me a new server (to last a
good few years ;-))
MB: Asus M2NPV-VM
proc: AMD Athlon 64, 3000+, Socket AM2, Boxed
RAM: Kingston KVR533D2N4K2/2G, 2048 MB, DDR2, PC4200, 533 MHz, 2 modules
HDD: Western Digital Caviar Special Edition, 40 GB, 7200 rpm, 8 MB
cache, ATA100
HDD: Western Digital WD5000KS, 500 GB, 7200 rpm, 16 MB cache, Serial ATA300
Optical: NEC-1300A CD/DVD writer, leftover after an upgrade of my
desktop system
case: Antec 3U25EPS550XR-2, with 550W PSU
Last Thursday I got my stuff and assembled the hardware. That took the
better part of about an hour. From that time onwards I'm trying to
install Debian Sarge for 64 bit AMD systems on my new server, but it
fails again and again. I tried the netinstall CD first: network not
recognised. Then I downloaded 13(!!) CD's from the image.debian.org site
but discovered I didn't have 13 blank CD-recordables! Fortunately I got
jigdo to work (for the first time I've been using Linux, about 5 yrs
now) but by then it was Sunday, very early in the morning :-\ Jigdo
managed to build me the 2 DVD's I just couldn't get downloading it from
the forenamed site (failed on both Mozilla and wget), using the CD iso
files I'd saved. Bad luck: I replaced the NEC writer on my desktop
because it failed to recognise some DVD's in the first place... :-\ So I
inserted the netinstall CD for the 10th time, but now I had the system
scan CD's I burned on a CD+RW disc. That took hours, erasing and
reburning the various iso images on that disc. I gave up after the 4th disc.
However, with those 4 disc's and some loose .deb's I managed to set up
the basic requirements for installing the latest nVidia drivers, who
require bin-utils and the kernel-sources with their dependencies, so I
could get the network to work. Installing the sources for 2.6.8 went
smoothly after that, but the modules from the nVidia driver failed to
build, complaining about 'not being the correct source for the running
kernel' (2.6.8-k8 or similar) Oh well, then I'll build a kernel from
scratch myself (2.6.17, latest from kernel.org). No problem building the
kernel and the modules, but after that I got stuck as I didn't have the
initrd-tools to make an initrd image for that new kernel. The
initrd-tools require cpio, which requires libc6 >=2.3.5 but I only have
2.3.2 as most recent available.
Basicly, I'm stuck now. Any idea's? Perhaps getting the forcedeth
drivers to recognise the NVIDIA GeForce 6150 + nForce 430 chipset? I've
managed to update my pci.ids file but to no avail. Any help would be
much appreciated!
Regards, M.V. Wesstein
the Netherlands
PS: I've got the hwinfo command to work, but as I have no way of getting
that file from the server to the desktop I'm afraid that wouldn't be of
any help. Mind you, on my server there is no X-Window system available
;-) And the hdparm /dev/hda command also fails: 'operation not
permitted' while logged in as root on the cli...
links:
http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1=3&l2=101&l3=0&model=1169&modelmenu=1
http://pciids.sourceforge.net/
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