On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 12:14:09PM +0100, stephen mulcahy wrote: > Hi Geert, > > Thanks for your response - I hope the installation report is useful to > someone. > > I'm replying off-bug because I'm not sure any of the following is > relevant/useful - feel free to add in if you wish. Because we both care about others, we should can it visible for others. > See some comments below, > > Geert Stappers wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 06:31:00PM +0100, stephen mulcahy wrote: > >> Package: installation-report > >> Severity: normal > >> > >> See blog at > >> http://blog.aplpi.com/index.php/2006/09/18/debian-gnulinux-on-a-hp-nc6400/ > >> for details. Seems to be related to bug 380351 but worked around it. (FYI: #380351 is a grub-install bug, fixed in 1.18) > > Okay, fine. Thank you for reporting the succesfull install. > > You may want to mention the above bug in the errata. The sugestion makes sense. I don't if the Beta 3 errata is also frozen. > >> Also, didn't get option to install SMP kernel - should I? > > > > Recent kernels have SMP support (iow: there are no "SMP-kernels" any more) > > This is news to me - is it documented anywhere? There was only one core > available in /proc/cpuinfo until I installed the SMP flavoured 2.6.16 > kernel (is this a dummy image or are you talking about changes in > unstable/post-2.6.16?). It is a 2.6.17 thing. > > Something else: > > > > Debian-installer can resize NTFS partitions > > ( no need for an extra piece of software ) The blog says "use an extra piece of software", I'm trying to say "no need for an extra piece of software" > > Just select the partition, select the size and enter the new desired size. > > Thanks, I was aware of this but I've yet to have any success using it. That makes your feedback interresting. You are telling that something that should work, doesn't work ... > I suspect running chkdsk/f on the NTFS partition fixes the parted in > Debian aswell .. but since it was significantly older than the parted in > the gparted livecd the last time I tried it and failed I got in the > habit of using gparted. Allow me to focus on debian-installer (i.o.w. allow me to ignore the other software ;-) > I'll give it another shot the next time. What about this proposal: * backup the NTFS partition * resize the NTFS partition with debian-installer (just make it some what smaller ) * Restart the computer, boot into MS-Windows to check the partition. * resize the NTFS partition with debian-installer (back to previous size) * Restart the computer, boot into MS-Windows to check the partition. * Report/blog about the NTFS resize excersize ??? > > Have fun with you Debian GNU/Linux computer system. > > Thanks! And well done on the Debian etch installer so far - overall it > is working very well. Your efforts are appreciated. Thank you. With a non-private reply see more d-i developers your compliment. > -stephen Cheers Geert Stappers -- $ apt-cache show linux-image-2.6-686-smp Package: linux-image-2.6-686-smp Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <debian-kernel@lists.debian.org> Version: 2.6.17+2 Description: Linux 2.6 image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4 SMP - transition package This package is for transition only.
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