Nick, I had a similar install problem on my SMP Pentium 3 Xeon system with SCSI disks. I resolved the problem by booting from the "vanilla" CD. Once the system was booted, I installed from the "generic" CD. I don't recall the logic or steps that led to that solution but it worked.
On a different note, it took 18 hours to link the kernel once the system was installed. Response times were incredibly slow. I installed atsar and about 40% of the processor was being used with the system idle. Once the new kernel was installed with SMP enabled, I could build a kernel in a couple of minutes and idle processor usage dropped to nil. I'm curious if you saw the same phenomenon on your MP system. Thanks Rick -----Original Message----- From: Nick Bailey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 4:14 AM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Woody is bootable? (was: Sarge is bootalbe?) Colin, I completely agree with everything you wrote. However, the last time I tried to install from a woody boot CDRom, I couldn't. It wouldn't mount SCSI disks so you couldn't get anywhere unless / was on an IDE device. Perhaps there is/was a way around this, but I failed to find it. Since our default machines here are dual-AMD with SCSI disks running Sid, I had to install Potato and dist-upgrade with all the pain which has been reported by others. Since I am (a) a big debian fan, (b) not aversed to a bit of hacking (much better than marking reports!) and (c) don't have any enterprise-critical machines to look after, I didn't think much of it. But perhaps SCSI support à la Sid being absent on Woody might turn off a few new potential converts who do not have mass-market machines. Sorry, I should have brought this up before (while Woody was still testing), but better late than never. Nick/ Colin Watson wrote: >On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 01:00:37PM +0200, Claudio wrote: > > >>I downloaded Sarge but i can't install booting from CD and i can't install >>it upgrading on Potato. >>It says: >>"Internal Error, couldn't configure a pre-depend". >>Plese help me, because i don't know i must to do. >> >> > >Please read the answers already given to you multiple times! > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot-0209/msg00241.html > http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot-0209/msg00242.html > http://lists.debian.org/debian-testing-0209/msg00014.html > >Do not try to install sarge directly yet, as it won't work. Upgrade from >potato to woody, following the instructions in the release notes at >http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/. Then consider upgrading to >sarge. > >If you have problems upgrading to woody, please post the full text of >the error messages you get. Please don't just post the same message yet >again. > >Regards, > > > -- Dr Nick Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Centre for Music Technology http://cmt.gla.ac.uk/ Dept of Electronics and Electrical Eng http://www.elec.gla.ac.uk/ The University of Glasgow http://www.gla.ac.uk European Copyright Directive/Software Patenting: you stand to lose your freedom. http://cmt.gla.ac.uk/Info/swpatents.html Please take our survey about how the arts can be delivered over the internet! http://cmt.gla.ac.uk/OD-Survey Tell your friends! Thanks! >From the OpenDrama team. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
