Re: Etch weekly build

[David Haworth]

On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 12:45:03PM +0200, P|pex wrote:
> I used the sarge cd for amd64 and after upgrade to
> etch with aptitude dist-ugprade

Thanks for the reply.

I currently have a working sarge, but I'm on dial-up so
aptitude dist-upgrade isn't practical.

The system is also in daily use, so I don't want to attempt an upgrade
and then have to spend ages picking up the pieces if it fails. What
I normally do is install the upgrade to another partition and dual-
boot. When I'm happy with the new version (or distro) I configure
it to mount the other partitions (/home etc) and make it the default
boot.

The sarge that I have installed is a bit of a hack too. The default
sarge install kernel didn't recognise my SATA controller, so I had
to boot another kernel before installing, which meant that the
modules didn't load properly and I had to do some configuration
by hand later. So I really don't want to try to upgrade it.

Maybe I'll give it a go. I'll let you know the results if I do.

Dave


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Etch weekly build

[David Haworth]

Hi,

http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-dvd/

I just noticed that the weekly build of etch for amd64 is now
3 DVDs. Does this mean that the etch DVDs are now usable?

The 3rd ISO is a little smaller than the equivalent i386 ISO.

Dave


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Re: Sarge on 100GB SATA Drives

[David Haworth]

Hi Siju,

On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 06:02:06PM +0530, Siju George wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am trying to net install sarge amd64 port on an amd64 athlon
> computer with 120GB Seagate Baracuda 7200.7 SATA Hard Disk.
> 
> The mother board is
> 
> http://www.directron.com/rs482m4ild.html
> 
> It seems the installer does not detect the hard disk :-(
> 
> Is this hardware supported? any work arounds?

I had a similar problem. It isn't the disk itself that isn't
recognised, it's the controller. My SATA controller wasn't
recognised by the sata_sil kernel module in the stock kernel.

I worked around the problem by hacking the kernel modules
from an OpenSUSE initrd into a copy of the debian installer
initrd, and then booting the OpenSuSE kernel with the
hacked initrd by inserting an option into the already-installed
OpenSuSE's GRUB menu.

It kind of worked. The main problem was that the modules in the
base system didn't match the kernel, so the basic installer
couldn't detect the hardware properly (apart from the DVD and the
hard drive), which has caused other problems along the way, and I
still haven't got the system properly configured as a result. :-(
I had to copy /lib/modules/xxx from SuSE into Debian by booting
SuSE and mounting the Debian root before I could even boot the
installed system properly.

There must be a better way - such as building a new installer DVD
from the old one but with replaced kernel and modules, but I've no
how to do that. I'm new to debian, having come from slackware
via SuSE (and given up on SuSE because there's so much missing).

Also never had bleeding-edge hardware before ;-)

Installed from DVDs: 2x Sarge-amd64 plus the "backports" disk.
I need x.org 6.9 to support the ATI card.

Dave


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