Re: Problems etc. when installing pure64

2004-08-11 Thread Philipp Frauenfelder
Dear Goswin On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 11:45:26PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Doesn't it download the driver at install time? Anything else would be > non-free. http://packages.debian.org/nvidia-glx is non-free. Regards -- Philipp | work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] +41 44 632 60 38 Frauenfel

Re: gcc-3.4 ready?

2004-08-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pete Harlan) writes: > On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 12:08:38PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: >> Andreas Jochens wrote: >> >As for stability, I am using the packages from the amd64/gcc-3.4 archive >> >myself on three machines (on my main desktop and on two servers) since a >> >few week

Re: gcc-3.4 ready?

2004-08-11 Thread Pete Harlan
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 12:08:38PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Andreas Jochens wrote: > >As for stability, I am using the packages from the amd64/gcc-3.4 archive > >myself on three machines (on my main desktop and on two servers) since a > >few weeks without any problems. From my own experience

Re: Problems etc. when installing pure64

2004-08-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Philipp Frauenfelder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dear Goswin > > Am Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 07:50:40PM +0200 hat Goswin von Brederlow getippert: >> Please send a patch to the BTS, easiest with "reportbug -A patch >> nvidia-graphics-drivers". > > I would already have done this if the patch would be

Re: netinst using gcc-3.4 packages: no valid Release file?

2004-08-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Harald Dunkel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi folks, > > I tried to do a netinst using the gcc-3.4 pool on alioth and > a monolithic image of a few days ago, but this failed with > the error message > >Bad archive error > >The specified Debian archive mirror is either not available, >

Re: Problems etc. when installing pure64

2004-08-11 Thread Philipp Frauenfelder
Dear Goswin Am Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 07:50:40PM +0200 hat Goswin von Brederlow getippert: > Please send a patch to the BTS, easiest with "reportbug -A patch > nvidia-graphics-drivers". I would already have done this if the patch would be a) simple b) small but it's neither of these. b) can be expl

Re: netinst using gcc-3.4 packages: no valid Release file?

2004-08-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Harald Dunkel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Harald Dunkel wrote: >> Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> >>> >>> That sounds more like an user error. Are you sure you specified the >>> right url? pure64 and gcc-3.4 identical archive software and have >>> an identical layout. >>> >> I am very sure. I r

Re: [debian-amd64] Re: building a dual Opteron Server

2004-08-11 Thread mike
my provider setup JFS for me on other machines, swore by it, and they're quite knowledgable. it also seems to run better than ext3. i'm not extremely clued in to filesystems, but i've been happy with it thus far with it. are there some negatives you're thinking that i should be aware of? On Wed,

Re: [debian-amd64] building a dual Opteron Server

2004-08-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 12:47 -0700, mike wrote: > I have > > Dual AMD opteron 242 (1.4ghz) > Tyan Thuner K8S (S2882) > 2 GB RAM > 3ware escalade 9500S-8 > 8x250GB WD SATA drives, 7 in raid5 with one hot spare > > so nearly same configuration you're asking about. > > first off, debian-amd64 scream

Re: [debian-amd64] building a dual Opteron Server

2004-08-11 Thread mike
I have Dual AMD opteron 242 (1.4ghz) Tyan Thuner K8S (S2882) 2 GB RAM 3ware escalade 9500S-8 8x250GB WD SATA drives, 7 in raid5 with one hot spare so nearly same configuration you're asking about. first off, debian-amd64 screams on it. it loves it. originally i had an 8506-8, but they told me p

Re: amd64/gcc-3.4 archive: multilib/-m32 support available (compilation of 32bit i386-binaries)

2004-08-11 Thread Andreas Jochens
On 04-Aug-11 20:57, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Andreas Jochens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm opposing any patches getting added to sarge (compared to debians > sarge). Your patch goes beyond what could still be added to debians > sarge and way beyond what could be added to base+standard pack

Re: Patch to compile 'grub' on amd64

2004-08-11 Thread Andreas Jochens
On 04-Aug-11 21:06, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Andreas Jochens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > PS: Did you find a working patch for the grub/initrd/>=4GB boot problem? > > Looks like it. The 8GB testsystem boots with it and noone else has > reported failures yet (current alioth version). That

Re: Patch to compile 'grub' on amd64

2004-08-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Andreas Jochens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 04-Aug-11 02:57, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Andreas Jochens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > can now be compiled directly in an amd64 environment. All it needs is >> > an additional Build-Depends on 'gcc-3.4-i386' (and the amd64-specific >> > gr

mpich and debian amd64

2004-08-11 Thread Elias Torres Arroyo
Hi, Have any of you tried to run mpich on debian-amd64? I am involved in a project to build a cluster, with * Dual Opteron Nodes * mpich over ethernet * Portland Group Compiler (we need Fortran 90 Support) * MM5 <-- The final goal (http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/mm5/mm5-home.html) If some of you have s

Re: amd64/gcc-3.4 archive: multilib/-m32 support available (compilation of 32bit i386-binaries)

2004-08-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Andreas Jochens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 04-Aug-11 02:57, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Andreas Jochens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > The amd64/gcc-3.4 archive (http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/gcc-3.4) >> > finally supports the compilation and linking of 32bit i386 binaries >

building a dual Opteron Server

2004-08-11 Thread Hans Wilmer
Hi, for building a new server, I´ve made a list of hardware to consider more closely. The server should, mainly, act as a SAMBA PDC fileserver and run an ERP software which is web-based (client written in Java) on top of a postgres database. It has to serve about 50 users and will probably in s

Re: netinst using gcc-3.4 packages: no valid Release file?

2004-08-11 Thread Harald Dunkel
Harald Dunkel wrote: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: That sounds more like an user error. Are you sure you specified the right url? pure64 and gcc-3.4 identical archive software and have an identical layout. I am very sure. I replaced /gcc-3.4/ by /pure64/, and the "Bad archive mirror" message was gone

Re: Can't install

2004-08-11 Thread VETSEL Patrice
I'm waiting for my USB keyboard (Logitech "Internet Navigator keyboard") -> http://www.hersys.com/cat/produit_idprod_937.html I'll tell you if this is the solution for my problem installing Debian/amd64 on my notebook Cya dberry a écrit : VETSEL Patrice wrote: Alex Perry a écrit : I don't see e

Re: where to ask ...

2004-08-11 Thread Hans Wilmer
Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: is this the right place to ask for advice and about your experience with dual-Opteron Debian servers? If you face specific problems, feel free to ask specific questions on this list... THX, I´ll go ahead then, opening a new thread :) GH

Re: aptitude out of date?

2004-08-11 Thread Harald Dunkel
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: You can't upgrade (savely). Switching to gcc-3.4 needs a complete reinstall of all packages. But it worked pretty well, except for aptitude, as it seems. Did I mention that a complete install did not work due to some missing Release file? Regards Harri

Re: netinst using gcc-3.4 packages: no valid Release file?

2004-08-11 Thread Harald Dunkel
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: That sounds more like an user error. Are you sure you specified the right url? pure64 and gcc-3.4 identical archive software and have an identical layout. I am very sure. I replaced /gcc-3.4/ by /pure64/, and the "Bad archive mirror" message was gone. Regards Harri

Re: Problems etc. when installing pure64

2004-08-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Philipp Frauenfelder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - I have the following graphics card: > > :01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX > 5200] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) > Subsystem: LeadTek Research Inc.: Unknown device 53c3 > Flags: bus maste

Re: aptitude out of date?

2004-08-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Harald Dunkel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andreas Jochens wrote: >> On 04-Aug-11 15:25, Harald Dunkel wrote: >> >>>Hi folks, >>> >>>Using aptitude of the gcc-3.4 pool I got an error message >>> >>> aptitude: Symbol `_ZTIN4SigC6ObjectE' has different size in shared >>> object, consider re-linki

Re: netinst using gcc-3.4 packages: no valid Release file?

2004-08-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Harald Dunkel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi folks, > > I tried to do a netinst using the gcc-3.4 pool on alioth and > a monolithic image of a few days ago, but this failed with > the error message > >Bad archive error > >The specified Debian archive mirror is either not available, >

Re: apt sources for getting the last amd64 debian port

2004-08-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Micky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Scrive Pere Castañer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> PS:I have this: "deb http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pure64 sid main" >> and I can't install nothiing, What I'm doing wrong? You tell us. Nothing wrong with that deb source. > I've this: > > deb http://debi

Re: Problems etc. when installing pure64

2004-08-11 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 03:48:41PM +0200, Philipp Frauenfelder wrote: > > - Netboot did not work. I got an error message "can't open an > initial console" after the kernel came up. Then it crashed. I have no idea what went wrong with that build but todays build doesn't seem to have the problem.

Re: New kernel flavour names

2004-08-11 Thread Christoph Hellwig
> Now, if you have a better name for the "intel xeon e64mt nocona" kernel > flavour (preferably something as short as k8 or k8-smp), feel free to > propose it. Given that it's just a P4 core with 64bit extentions I'd call it -p4 and -p4-smp

Re: aptitude out of date?

2004-08-11 Thread Harald Dunkel
Andreas Jochens wrote: On 04-Aug-11 15:25, Harald Dunkel wrote: Hi folks, Using aptitude of the gcc-3.4 pool I got an error message aptitude: Symbol `_ZTIN4SigC6ObjectE' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking Rebuilding aptitude did not work: The new binary died with a core dump

Re: where to ask ...

2004-08-11 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Wed, 2004-08-11 14:32:36 +0200, Hans Wilmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > is this the right place to ask for advice and about your experience with > dual-Opteron Debian servers? If you face specific problems, feel free to ask specific questions on this list... Mf

Problems etc. when installing pure64

2004-08-11 Thread Philipp Frauenfelder
Hi Yesterday, I got a brand new amd64 machine in the office. Cool. It has the following CPU: $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 12 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 2800+ I am running the following kernel: $

Re: aptitude out of date?

2004-08-11 Thread Andreas Jochens
On 04-Aug-11 15:25, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Hi folks, > > Using aptitude of the gcc-3.4 pool I got an error message > > aptitude: Symbol `_ZTIN4SigC6ObjectE' has different size in shared object, > consider re-linking > > Rebuilding aptitude did not work: The new binary died with a > core dump im

aptitude out of date?

2004-08-11 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi folks, Using aptitude of the gcc-3.4 pool I got an error message aptitude: Symbol `_ZTIN4SigC6ObjectE' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking Rebuilding aptitude did not work: The new binary died with a core dump immediately. ??? Harri

netinst using gcc-3.4 packages: no valid Release file?

2004-08-11 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi folks, I tried to do a netinst using the gcc-3.4 pool on alioth and a monolithic image of a few days ago, but this failed with the error message Bad archive error The specified Debian archive mirror is either not available, or does not have a valid Release file on it. Would it be possible

Patch to compile 'grub' on amd64

2004-08-11 Thread Andreas Jochens
On 04-Aug-11 02:57, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Andreas Jochens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > can now be compiled directly in an amd64 environment. All it needs is > > an additional Build-Depends on 'gcc-3.4-i386' (and the amd64-specific > > grub-patch, of course). > > There is no amd64-specif

where to ask ...

2004-08-11 Thread Hans Wilmer
Hi, is this the right place to ask for advice and about your experience with dual-Opteron Debian servers? GH

Re: apt sources for getting the last amd64 debian port

2004-08-11 Thread Micky
Scrive Pere Castañer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > PS:I have this: "deb http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pure64 sid main" > and I can't install nothiing, What I'm doing wrong? I've this: deb http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pure64 sid main non-free contrib # deb-src http://debian-amd64.aliot

apt sources for getting the last amd64 debian port

2004-08-11 Thread Pere Castañer
I need the sources lists. I have a debian-amd64 minimal system installed through chroot's way that showed me the howto. But which are the sources to install the whole system? ( I mean xfrees, gnomes...etc) PS:I have this: "deb http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pure64 sid main" and I can't

Re: gcc-3.4 ready?

2004-08-11 Thread Andreas Jochens
On 04-Aug-11 12:08, Harald Dunkel wrote: > You should mention the sources.list for this. AFAIK its > > deb http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/gcc-3.4/ unstable main non-free > contrib > deb-src http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/gcc-3.4/ unstable main > non-free contrib This is correct. S

Re: gcc-3.4 ready?

2004-08-11 Thread Harald Dunkel
Andreas Jochens wrote: There has not been any decision whether the pure64/gcc-3.3 archive will be dropped in favor the the amd64/gcc-3.4 archive. There are some 300 packages more available in the pure64/gcc-3.3 archive than in the amd64/gcc-3.4 amd64/gcc-3.4 at the moment (~8300 vs. ~8000 packages

Re: Gigabyte K8NS

2004-08-11 Thread Sebastian Steinlechner
Am Di, den 10.08.2004 schrieb Manuele Rampazzo um 20:26: > Mm sis900 didn't work, even if there are some references to ics lan > phy. Then I've looked for some infos about the nforce3-250 I've got on > the board and I've patched the custom forcedeth module from the 2.6.7 > debian kernel sour

Re: gcc-3.4 ready?

2004-08-11 Thread Andreas Jochens
On 04-Aug-11 09:42, Andreas Kn?pfer wrote: > hi everybody, > > there has been some posts here a while ago saying that the /gcc-3.4 > repository > is not yet ready, missing packages etc... > > now, i'm wondering if it is ready for regular use. is it regarded as stable > as > the /pure64 versio

gcc-3.4 ready?

2004-08-11 Thread Andreas Knüpfer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi everybody, there has been some posts here a while ago saying that the /gcc-3.4 repository is not yet ready, missing packages etc... now, i'm wondering if it is ready for regular use. is it regarded as stable as the /pure64 version? i'd like to

Re: amd64/gcc-3.4 archive: multilib/-m32 support available (compilation of 32bit i386-binaries)

2004-08-11 Thread Andreas Jochens
On 04-Aug-11 02:57, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Andreas Jochens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The amd64/gcc-3.4 archive (http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/gcc-3.4) > > finally supports the compilation and linking of 32bit i386 binaries > > using the gcc '-m32' switch. The gcc-3.4 package