amd64 installation
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 before the list of
hardware on ubuntu. Well, the Tyan below (Tyan K8WE S2895 nvidia nForce pro
2200 and 2050) is not listed as supported; only older Tyans. Try nonetheless?
Doubtuful with kernel 2.6.12.6 of ubuntu 5.10
On the other hand, Goswin answered my mail below advising (for my particular
needs and capability) to avoid debian <testing> and go to <sarge>. Again a
rather old kernel and thus probably no support to the Tyan mainboard.
The alternative is trying with the debian testing installer (may be by paving
the way through a ubuntu amd64 live CD??) but I strongly rely on Goswin's
indications. But this seems to me the only viable route.
Maybe I am overcomplicating the problem but I halted for a while any trial
until I exit my present confusion.
I hope not to bother all you too much
regards
francesco pietra
On Monday 22 May 2006 08:06, Craig Hagerman wrote:
> 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 hesitant about doing an installation yourself, why
> don't you just download a copy of Ubuntu for amd64. I have computers
> running both. the differences are minor, but the installation is
> completely painless with Ubuntu, whereas I have never been able to say
> that about Debian. With Ubuntu the installation is pretty automated
> and lots of things just work ... things that I have to fight to get
> working in Debian (realplayer anyone?).
>
> Craig
>
> On 5/22/06, Francesco Pietra <frapietra@alice.it> wrote:
> > 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
> > 6600 256M DDR DVI and a scsi card for external devices), a couple of dual
> > amd64 opteron, and a couple of 300GB SATA HD.
> >
> > For the benefit of poor guys like me who rarely carry out software
> > installations, could you please check my projected route, and its
> > sequence, for suitability/correctness?
> >
> > 1) Start with debian installer
> > Debian testing amd64 Bin-1/ISO9660 [93 MB] (CD-ROM waiting on my machine)
> > burned from
> > debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso [93.4 MB]
> > as downloaded yesterday from
> > http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
> >
> > 2)Follow substantially a netinstall according to Roberto's howto
> > http://haydn.debian.org/~intero-guest/debian-amd64-howto.html
> >
> > 3)Establish raid1. To this regard, I am at "Today 21:19:28" directions by
> > Alexander Siek. I understand Alexander has positively answered all
> > (nearly all?) criticism by Goswin. However, I must confess that i use a
> > pc with debian testing/unstable but I never established a raid before.
> > Therefore, I only hope to be able to follow Alexander's indications but
> > it would be better for me to read before some general instructions as to
> > establish a raid1. I have none yet.
> >
> > 4)Install 32b applications into a chroot as indicated in both Roberto's
> > howto above and, for what I need, ie not sound) in
> > http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/356
> > without, however, following step
> > 1.4) You also need a link to your 32bit linker in the /lib path:
> > $ cd /lib
> > $ ln -s /var/sid-386-chroot/lib/ld-linux.so.2 ld-linux.so.2
> > because I read somewhere that installed libraries are linked per se.
> >
> > I hope the kernel provided supports my mainboard and I wish myself good
> > luck. But there cannot be good luck without some guidance. Thanks a lot
> >
> > francesco pietra
> >
> >
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