Re: Installing Debian (Sarge, 64 bit) on AM2 platform fails, update
Hi all Thanks for the replies, both on and off list. Yesterday I went to a local PC shop for some rounded IDE cables and decided I'd better buy a cheap network card too. Installed it (Realtek 8139 chipset, well supported in Debian) and re-installed with the netinstall CD I'd got earlier. This time, it worked. After a few trail errors I got a fresh 2.6.17.1 kernel installed and low and behold: the onboard network was recognised by the forcedeth driver! Now the base system is installed it's time for the services. Apache-2, the latest Webmin, an FTP server and such will be the next challenge. Thanks again for your help! One more thing though: is the development team interested in the output of the hwinfo command? Or any other command(s) to get a better understanding of the AM2 platform? The hwinfo.txt file I have is approxx 155 kB in size. Regards, M.V. Wesstein the Netherlands -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing Debian (Sarge, 64 bit) on AM2 platform fails
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 05:20:05 +0200, m.v.wesstein wrote: Oh well, then I'll build a kernel from scratch myself (2.6.17, latest from kernel.org). No problem building the kernel and the modules, but after that I got stuck as I didn't have the initrd-tools to make an initrd image for that new kernel. The initrd-tools require cpio, which requires libc6 =2.3.5 but I only have 2.3.2 as most recent available. Basicly, I'm stuck now. Any idea's? Don't know if you *really* need Sarge, but just get yourself the linux-image deb from unstable and its dependencies and install that one. -- Best Regards, Jack Linux User #264449 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux on AMD64 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing Debian (Sarge, 64 bit) on AM2 platform fails
On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 05:02:02AM +0200, m.v.wesstein wrote: Basicly, I'm stuck now. Any idea's? Perhaps getting the forcedeth drivers to recognise the NVIDIA GeForce 6150 + nForce 430 chipset? I've managed to update my pci.ids file but to no avail. Any help would be much appreciated! 2.6.8 was released almost 18 months ago. The chipset on your board is no where near that old. The 2.6.8 kernel simply has no way to know how to support that chipset. Try etch instead, or one of the sarge installers with 2.6.15 or newer kernel. The pci.ids file is just for lspci. It doesn't tell the drivers anything. The kernel doesn't look at files itself. amd64 version: http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/2.6.15/sarge-custom-0209-x86_64.iso i386 version: http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/2.6.15/sarge-custom-0206.iso http://kmuto.jp/b.cgi/debian/d-i-2615.htm has more info on it. You can also try the 2.6.12 based one I made a while ago, although 2.6.15 is likely better for that board. Using the kernel from backports.org is my recomendation once you have it installed. Mine is at http://www.tinyplanet.ca/~lsorense/amd64/ Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing Debian (Sarge, 64 bit) on AM2 platform fails
Jack Malmostoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 05:20:05 +0200, m.v.wesstein wrote: Oh well, then I'll build a kernel from scratch myself (2.6.17, latest from kernel.org). No problem building the kernel and the modules, but after that I got stuck as I didn't have the initrd-tools to make an initrd image for that new kernel. The initrd-tools require cpio, which requires libc6 =2.3.5 but I only have 2.3.2 as most recent available. Basicly, I'm stuck now. Any idea's? Don't know if you *really* need Sarge, but just get yourself the linux-image deb from unstable and its dependencies and install that one. A better idea is to grab them from http://backports.org/, where you will face a much less tough time than doing the backporting yourself. Regards, Daniel -- Digital Infrastructure Solutions -- making IT simple, stable and secure Phone: 0401 155 707email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://digital-infrastructure.com.au/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installing Debian (Sarge, 64 bit) on AM2 platform fails
Hello! Earlier this month AMD released their DDR-2 platform AM2 for regular users. So I got myself some hardware to build me a new server (to last a good few years ;-)) MB: Asus M2NPV-VM proc: AMD Athlon 64, 3000+, Socket AM2, Boxed RAM: Kingston KVR533D2N4K2/2G, 2048 MB, DDR2, PC4200, 533 MHz, 2 modules HDD: Western Digital Caviar Special Edition, 40 GB, 7200 rpm, 8 MB cache, ATA100 HDD: Western Digital WD5000KS, 500 GB, 7200 rpm, 16 MB cache, Serial ATA300 Optical: NEC-1300A CD/DVD writer, leftover after an upgrade of my desktop system case: Antec 3U25EPS550XR-2, with 550W PSU Last Thursday I got my stuff and assembled the hardware. That took the better part of about an hour. From that time onwards I'm trying to install Debian Sarge for 64 bit AMD systems on my new server, but it fails again and again. I tried the netinstall CD first: network not recognised. Then I downloaded 13(!!) CD's from the image.debian.org site but discovered I didn't have 13 blank CD-recordables! Fortunately I got jigdo to work (for the first time I've been using Linux, about 5 yrs now) but by then it was Sunday, very early in the morning :-\ Jigdo managed to build me the 2 DVD's I just couldn't get downloading it from the forenamed site (failed on both Mozilla and wget), using the CD iso files I'd saved. Bad luck: I replaced the NEC writer on my desktop because it failed to recognise some DVD's in the first place... :-\ So I inserted the netinstall CD for the 10th time, but now I had the system scan CD's I burned on a CD+RW disc. That took hours, erasing and reburning the various iso images on that disc. I gave up after the 4th disc. However, with those 4 disc's and some loose .deb's I managed to set up the basic requirements for installing the latest nVidia drivers, who require bin-utils and the kernel-sources with their dependencies, so I could get the network to work. Installing the sources for 2.6.8 went smoothly after that, but the modules from the nVidia driver failed to build, complaining about 'not being the correct source for the running kernel' (2.6.8-k8 or similar) Oh well, then I'll build a kernel from scratch myself (2.6.17, latest from kernel.org). No problem building the kernel and the modules, but after that I got stuck as I didn't have the initrd-tools to make an initrd image for that new kernel. The initrd-tools require cpio, which requires libc6 =2.3.5 but I only have 2.3.2 as most recent available. Basicly, I'm stuck now. Any idea's? Perhaps getting the forcedeth drivers to recognise the NVIDIA GeForce 6150 + nForce 430 chipset? I've managed to update my pci.ids file but to no avail. Any help would be much appreciated! Regards, M.V. Wesstein the Netherlands PS: I've got the hwinfo command to work, but as I have no way of getting that file from the server to the desktop I'm afraid that wouldn't be of any help. Mind you, on my server there is no X-Window system available ;-) And the hdparm /dev/hda command also fails: 'operation not permitted' while logged in as root on the cli... links: http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1=3l2=101l3=0model=1169modelmenu=1 http://pciids.sourceforge.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
