Re: Newbie Question

2006-05-12 Thread Raimund Jacob
Alexander Samad wrote: Hi! > I have 2 machines running amd64 , 1 I have setup with apt-proxy (what > are other people using ?) i found apt-proxy to be too much of a pain to setup. I just share /var/cache/apt over nfs between several hosts (i386 and amd64) - add the "lock" mount option, at some p

RE: VIA VT8251 low performance (was: ASUS A8V-MX)

2006-05-12 Thread Ziborski KEG
Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 01:55:56AM +0200, Zrin wrote: > > Well, I am getting about the same with Asus A8V-VM (and > > VT8251). It is that I was expecting more... > > Well the specs on the WD 160GB drive says max buffer to disk > speed of 748Mbit/s, and I imagine there i

Re: updated howto

2006-05-12 Thread Francesco Pietra
Having to install debian amd64 on opeton/tyan, may i ask whether this is the latest complete guideline, or should it anyway be in part updated? thank you francesco pietra On Monday 20 March 2006 20:57, Roberto Pariset wrote: > Hello, > an updated version of the debian amd64 howto is avaiable in m

Re: Newbie Question

2006-05-12 Thread Jo Shields
Alexander Samad wrote: Hi Finaly found the amd64 mailing list. Browsing through the mailing list archives I noticed that there are several locations to point my apt sources.lst I have 2 machines running amd64 , 1 I have setup with apt-proxy (what are other people using ?) and I point to htt

Re: updated howto

2006-05-12 Thread Roberto Pariset
Francesco Pietra wrote: Having to install debian amd64 on opeton/tyan, may i ask whether this is the latest complete guideline, or should it anyway be in part updated? thank you francesco pietra Yes, go for it. Some things still need to be updated, but I believe it's not misleading. Good luck

SATA, RAID and GRUB

2006-05-12 Thread Valero Pascual
Hello!!     I have a computer with amd64 and I am trying to install the sarge for amd64 with a minimum CD for net, I lower the image ISO: should-31r0a-amd64-netinst. Antecedentes: I must say that the computer has two disks SATA 160Gb configured as RAID 0 from the BIOS CONFGURATION RAID, therefore,

Re: SATA, RAID and GRUB

2006-05-12 Thread Jo Shields
Valero Pascual wrote: Hello!! I have a computer with amd64 and I am trying to install the sarge for amd64 with a minimum CD for net, I lower the image ISO: should-31r0a-amd64-netinst. Antecedentes: I must say that the computer has two disks SATA 160Gb configured as RAID 0 from the BIOS CO

Re: SATA, RAID and GRUB

2006-05-12 Thread Erik Brucken
On Friday 12 May 2006 13:05, Valero Pascual wrote: > Hello!! > > I have a computer with amd64 and I am trying to install the sarge for amd64 > with a minimum CD for net, I lower the image ISO: > should-31r0a-amd64-netinst. Antecedentes: I must say that the computer has > two disks SATA 160Gb config

Re: SATA, RAID and GRUB

2006-05-12 Thread Clive Menzies
On (12/05/06 13:24), Erik Brucken wrote: > On Friday 12 May 2006 13:05, Valero Pascual wrote: > > Hello!! > > > > I have a computer with amd64 and I am trying to install the sarge for amd64 > > with a minimum CD for net, I lower the image ISO: > > should-31r0a-amd64-netinst. Antecedentes: I must sa

Problem booting Debian amd64 3.1r0a

2006-05-12 Thread Alex Page
I'm trying to install Debian amd64 3.1r0a on a dual em64t Xeon box, with SCSI hard drives and an IDE CD-ROM. I've previously had Debian i386 running on the same hardware. Once I've completed the base install from CD, I'm prompted to reboot into Debian. When I boot my Debian amd64 kernel, the b

Re: Problem booting Debian amd64 3.1r0a

2006-05-12 Thread Hans
Am Freitag, 12. Mai 2006 13:08 schrieb Alex Page: > I'm trying to install Debian amd64 3.1r0a on a dual em64t Xeon box, with > SCSI hard drives and an IDE CD-ROM. I've previously had Debian i386 > running on the same hardware. > > Once I've completed the base install from CD, I'm prompted to reboot

Re: VIA VT8251 low performance (was: ASUS A8V-MX)

2006-05-12 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 09:13:38AM +0200, Ziborski KEG wrote: > Thank you for this information - where did you get it? > > ... I'd like to find out if there are faster drives > available. www.westerndigital.com. Pick the drive model and click specifications. If you want faster, you need higher

XFS support

2006-05-12 Thread rjpp
The XFS support of the packed kernel of the NetInstall image isn't working properly. It does install but keeps throwing kernel oops and fails to install grub. And after we take a long detour to get things to work at the sight of a little load it pulls a xfs_force_shutdown of md0 and thereby

Re: XFS support

2006-05-12 Thread Andrew Sharp
Sounds like pilot error to me. I've been using XFS on my md0/raid1 for 7 months, works like a charm. This with debian/etch, netinstall, grub boot loader. Installed and ran straight out of the box, narry a problem. I think for the first 3 months I was using debian kernel 2.6.12.something. In fa

Re: XFS support

2006-05-12 Thread Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh)
I'm using xfs on lvm on software raid1 since february 2005. I've installed the system with the net install evailable at this time and updated it... The only problem I've found with xfs is if I use xfs_fsr on my home directory, this eventually finished remounting ro the partition and I've t

Re: Newbie Question

2006-05-12 Thread Dan Serban
Raimund Jacob wrote: Alexander Samad wrote: Hi! I have 2 machines running amd64 , 1 I have setup with apt-proxy (what are other people using ?) i found apt-proxy to be too much of a pain to setup. I just share /var/cache/apt over nfs between several hosts (i386 and amd64) - add the "