A story of Pure64
Last weekend I was in a deep despair.
My parts to build a new amd64 system was in the mail, but I hadn't
decided yet on which distro I should use.
The choice seemed to be between SuSE 9.1 or Fedora Core 2, both in
64-bit.
I decided to google around for som more info. And what did I find:
Debian Pure64. YES. My prayers really was heard...I used Debian a couple
of years ago, but after beein forced into SuSE because of professional
reasons (Oracle doesn't like Debian that much, and I'm an Oracle DBA),
my daily use of Debian has been severely absent.
Monday night I cranked up my system, while downloading the latest D-I
image for pure64. Stuffed the CD in, and all seemed OK. UNTIL......
Grub does _not_ like to be installed on the last HD. It shouted and
cried and would not boot. I yanked out the powercables on my other
disks, and Voilà. Pure64 emerged from the ashses like a phoenix.
After some nights now with compiling, debugging, irc-chatting on
#debian-amd64 and building a few debs, I'm almost there. BUT as all of
my knownledge with these things : The almost there is almost there for a
long time.
A big thanks to the guys on #debian-amd64 for helping me out, when I
needed it....
Thanx mrvn_ and Q_
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Per-Arne Hellarvik <per-arne@hellarvik.com>
Hellarvik.com
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