grub installed on root reboot
user Finished by startX OK Now it is the time to stop and go to sleep I'll examine if the boot loader is on both disks Is KDE available? Recompiling kernel will be probably needed because i have to compile for 64bit my pre-program for mpqc. It was a stimulating adventure. Thanks to all you indeed francesco ___________ I used debian raid1 not the one from Tyan. It seems now that I am progressing by changing mirror to Austria (debian.inode.at) Choosing <stable> again it pointed to cd sarge and stopped. But choosing <testing> it is going on. Installed linux-image-2.6.15-1-amd64-generic Unfortunately, security.debian.org could not be accessed: /etch/apt/sources.list file to be reported later to discover why Of course I am agreeing to participate to automatic submission every week sending statistics to debian developers, whereby i finished installing the core and i am now at installing the Desktop Envir. and Standard System. The breakthrough may be due to Austria being the country of my wife and my daughter.... francesco As explained below for installation of amd64 debian testing with Tyan K8WE with two dual 265 amd opteron starting from installer downloaded a couple of days ago from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ I am halted at "booted from the ram disk" With LeftAlt-F1 I get ash provided with nano and, if i know how, i could redirect the installer to, I suppose, the installer CD-ROM I just tried ~#dhclient and, if i understand, the one of the three ports (eth1 nvidia) is OK, as shown, inter alia, by: Listening on LPF/eth1/00:e0:81:57:d1:ba Sending on LPF/eth1/00:e0:81:57:d1:ba DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to 255,255.255.2555 port 67 DHCPAK from 192.168.1.34 -- renewal in 129600 seconds. francesco ANYWAY THE WPROKSTATION IS LEFT RUNNING TO RUN ANY USEFUL SUGGESTION francesco I am using the above TESTING installer with the above hardware (having chosen, at the installer request, ftp.de.debian.org as mirror; internet is ok on this pc bound to the same rooter). I must say that everything run smoothly, raid1 MD (I choose separate /, /usr, /var, swap, /tmp), root pass, user pass, but base system installation failed, althoug the installer CD-ROM had not been removed. Apparently the system expected SARGE: Debootstrap error: failed getting release file:///cdrom/dists/sarge/release I insisted and the window "preparing to install the base system appeared for a long while but exited with the same above error, reporting errors at virtual console 4. LeftAlt-F4 is very long, the two last lines: ---Running /usr/lib/base-installer.d/40netcf ---exiting on error base-installer/debootstrap-failed On Enter, further lines report about kernel ---md: using max available idle IO bandwidth (but no more than 200000 KB/sec) for reconstruction. ---md: using 128k window, ober a total of 2931712 blocks. ---raid1 conf printout: ---wd:2 ed:2 ---disk 0, wo:0, 0:1, dev:sda9. ---disk1, wo:0, 0:1. dev:sdb9. ---md: md2: sync done. ---as abore repeated for sda6 and asb6 Hope to get suggestions as either letting the testin CD-ROM being recognized or something else. Nothing against installing Sarge at this point,, only to know how. THE WORKSATTION IS LEFT RUNNING IN THE HOPE OF A RECOVERING SUGGESTION Thank you francesco pietra > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Karl Schmidt EMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Transtronics, Inc. WEB http://xtronics.com > 3209 West 9th Street Ph (785) 841-3089 > Lawrence, KS 66049 FAX (785) 841-0434 > > > The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of > getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into > small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. > --Mark Twain > ---------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]