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Re: Woody is bootable? (was: Sarge is bootalbe?)

No problem with the kernel afaik: I didn't build it though. After forcing the upgrade from potato and spending hours tweeking X, ALSA, and practically everything else which wasn't quite working, it seemed to go perfectly. Things went faster with the stock SMP kernel than the single processor one, and I guess there may be some advantage to building a custom one, but I didn't bother being so relieved at getting the potato->sid transition going at all. With make -j (not on the kernel, but on a reasonably sized project I work on from time to time) the machines really fly. Mind you, with 2GB RAM, you'd expect reasonable performance.
Next time I'll read the manual. Thanks for being patient, Rick and Mike, I deserve a good flame for that piece of stupidity!
The only time I've been seen the behaviour you describe w.r.t. strange slow-downs, Rick, it was to do with a bizarre series of coincidences to do with an automounted filesystem and conflicting IP addresses. Always had pretty close to pinned CPU utilization. 

Nick/


Rick Kelley wrote:


Nick,

I had a similar install problem on my SMP Pentium 3 Xeon system with SCSI
disks.  I resolved the problem by booting from the "vanilla" CD.  Once the
system was booted, I installed from the "generic" CD.  I don't recall the
logic or steps that led to that solution but it worked.

On a different note, it took 18 hours to link the kernel once the system was
installed.  Response times were incredibly slow.  I installed atsar and
about 40% of the processor was being used with the system idle. Once the new
kernel was installed with SMP enabled, I could build a kernel in a couple of
minutes and idle processor usage dropped to nil.  I'm curious if you saw the
same phenomenon on your MP system.

Thanks
Rick

-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Bailey [mailto:n.j.bailey@elec.gla.ac.uk]
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 4:14 AM
To: debian-testing@lists.debian.org
Cc: debian-testing@lists.debian.org
Subject: Woody is bootable? (was: Sarge is bootalbe?)


Colin,

I completely agree with everything you wrote.

However, the last time I tried to install from a woody boot CDRom, I
couldn't. It wouldn't mount SCSI disks so you couldn't get anywhere
unless / was on an IDE device. Perhaps there is/was a way around this,
but I failed to find it. Since our default machines here are dual-AMD
with SCSI disks running Sid, I had to install Potato and dist-upgrade
with all the pain which has been reported by others.

Since I am (a) a big debian fan, (b) not aversed to a bit of hacking
(much better than marking reports!) and (c) don't have any
enterprise-critical machines to look after, I didn't think much of it.
But perhaps SCSI support à la Sid being absent on Woody might turn off a
few new potential converts who do not have mass-market machines.

Sorry, I should have brought this up before (while Woody was still
testing), but better late than never.

Nick/


Colin Watson wrote:


On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 01:00:37PM +0200, Claudio wrote:



I downloaded Sarge but i can't install booting from CD and i can't install
it upgrading on Potato.
It says:
"Internal Error, couldn't configure a pre-depend".
Plese help me, because i don't know i must to do.



Please read the answers already given to you multiple times!

http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot-0209/msg00241.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot-0209/msg00242.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-testing-0209/msg00014.html

Do not try to install sarge directly yet, as it won't work. Upgrade from
potato to woody, following the instructions in the release notes at
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/. Then consider upgrading to
sarge.

If you have problems upgrading to woody, please post the full text of
the error messages you get. Please don't just post the same message yet
again.

Regards,





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