Re: amd64 installation
Hi Karl:
In fact I recovered from my mental mess, reasoning approximately as you below.
I started yesterday (too late in the day!) the installation and sent a
preliminary positive feedback to the list and in particular to Goswin - who
generously helped me patiently - a preliminary positive feed back from
installation with debian amd64 testing installer.
It was too late to continue the installation and I'll resume the work later in
the day. I was stopped at partitioning the two HDs. Although I choose manual
partitioning, I was unable to find the option how to partition. But I was so
sleepy.
I always believed that oversimplifying may not solve the problem. Adding to
your note as to beginners/linux flavor, there is another route: starting at
full possibilities while associating to the next linux group. I did so for
debian 32 but now in my group no one has yet tried debian 64 or an advanced
mainboard as I have.
Thanks for your warning and encouragement.
francesco pietra
On Tuesday 23 May 2006 04:49, Karl Schmidt wrote:
> Not all of a move to ubuntu is good news. Be aware that it is _not_ like
> Debian Stable. I tried using ubuntu to install on a AMD64 system and tried
> to move to Debian stable - turned into a huge mess.
>
> Ubuntu could be a version of Debian with 'pinning' of certain packages and
> a few special packages to set up sane defaults and a few special packages -
> but that is not what it is. From what I can tell, not much that is learned
> in ubuntu is going directly back to Debian.
>
> It may not be a bad choice for a first time Linux user.
>
> I found that the iso at:
> http://amd64.debian.net/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-amd64/beta2/ima
>ges/netboot/mini.iso
>
> worked better than others.
>
>
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