Which AMD64 installer iso to use?

2006-05-22 Thread Karl Schmidt
OK - this is rather strange. There are iso downloads at : http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ and at http://amd64.debian.net/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-amd64/beta2/images/netboot/mini.iso The daily builds listed at http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ seem to hav

amd64 debian installation steps

2006-05-22 Thread Francesco Pietra
Hi Goswin: I have seen your two further e-mails. Thank you indeed. I started with the debian amd64 testing indicated previously (below) with a plan to install pure 64bit and then a chroot for 32bit. I badly started too late in the evening. Hardware is recognized as far as I could see: DHCP conf

Re: sun-java5-plugin on amd64

2006-05-22 Thread Hans
Am Montag, 22. Mai 2006 18:39 schrieb Wolfgang Mader: > Does this work for you? > If I add this line to source.list and update I get: > Can not access list /var/lib/apt/lists/geole...-amd64_Packages > > If I look under /var/lib/apt/lists there is a list for geole, but only with > i386 entries? Any

Re: Still having random crashes after installing X with nvidia

2006-05-22 Thread hendrik
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 08:48:44AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Unless I get some help from this list, the next thing I'll be trying is > going throuth the list of optional addons to X that dpkg-reconfigure > xorg-server provides and taking them out. Things like direct rendering > and G

Re: amd64 installation

2006-05-22 Thread Karl Schmidt
Not all of a move to ubuntu is good news. Be aware that it is _not_ like Debian Stable. I tried using ubuntu to install on a AMD64 system and tried to move to Debian stable - turned into a huge mess. Ubuntu could be a version of Debian with 'pinning' of certain packages and a few special pac

Re: amd64 installation

2006-05-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Francesco Pietra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Craig: > > I decided to follow your 2nd suggestion (for a non expert like me) to install > permanently ubuntu 5.10, albeit with much regret because I had always loved > the debian environment, people in the first place. I downloaded the ubuntu >

amd64 debian installation steps

2006-05-22 Thread Francesco Pietra
I forgot to ask: chroot 32 after complete installation as below described? Hi Goswin: I have seen your two further e-mails. Thank you indeed. I started with the debian amd64 testing indicated previously (below) with a plan to install pure 64bit and then a chroot for 32bit. I badly started too l

Re: amd64 installation

2006-05-22 Thread Alexander Samad
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 04:49:18PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: > I forgot a key point: my move to 64 is essentially to double the floating > point for the package mpqc, which i use on 32 but it is available as a debian > package for the testing. To write papers, sending mail or navigating on

Re: counting scsi hosts

2006-05-22 Thread Jim Crilly
On 05/22/06 01:51:37PM +0200, H. Wilmer wrote: > Jim Crilly wrote: > > >>There's no such module; I think SCSI support is compiled into the kernel. > > > > > >That would probably be a valid assumption. > > Yeah, I'd say I did that :) > > >Well to even attempt reloading anything you need it as a m

Re: amd64 installation

2006-05-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Francesco Pietra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I forgot a key point: my move to 64 is essentially to double the floating > point for the package mpqc, which i use on 32 but it is available as a debian > package for the testing. To write papers, sending mail or navigating on > internet i would h

Re: sun-java5-plugin on amd64

2006-05-22 Thread Wolfgang Mader
Does this work for you? If I add this line to source.list and update I get: Can not access list /var/lib/apt/lists/geole...-amd64_Packages If I look under /var/lib/apt/lists there is a list for geole, but only with i386 entries? Any hint? Cheers W. Mader Am Montag 22 Mai 2006 06:35 schrieb Hans

amd64 installation

2006-05-22 Thread Francesco Pietra
I forgot a key point: my move to 64 is essentially to double the floating point for the package mpqc, which i use on 32 but it is available as a debian package for the testing. To write papers, sending mail or navigating on internet i would have not thought to 64bit. Hi Craig: I decided to fol

amd64 installation

2006-05-22 Thread Francesco Pietra
Hi Craig: I decided to follow your 2nd suggestion (for a non expert like me) to install permanently ubuntu 5.10, albeit with much regret because I had always loved the debian environment, people in the first place. I downloaded the ubuntu *.iso and wrote the ISO 9660 but I forgot to check befor

Still having random crashes after installing X with nvidia

2006-05-22 Thread hendrik
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I finally got X up with the nvidia drivers! Lovely screen. I had no > > idea my monitor was capable of such high resolution. It's now my > > favorite machine to work on. Despite the crashes. Well, the crashes *do* gt wearying -- it tends to crash acter somehwe

Re: counting scsi hosts

2006-05-22 Thread H. Wilmer
Jim Crilly wrote: There's no such module; I think SCSI support is compiled into the kernel. That would probably be a valid assumption. Yeah, I'd say I did that :) Well to even attempt reloading anything you need it as a module, infact I prefer to make everything possible a module and use

Re: please summarize amd64 installation steps

2006-05-22 Thread Francesco Pietra
Hi Craig: You may be right but let me explain, hopefully in the interest to part of the audience too. I am a chemist/biologist and my scope with the workstation is to carry out mechanical and quantum mechanical calculations on molecules. Which cannot be done at any useful level with a pc. Certa