Re: Which AMD64 installer iso to use?

2006-05-25 Thread Francesco Pietra
Thank you. A lot I did not know, it is a must reading, especially important testing secure update in my case Thank you francesco On Wednesday 24 May 2006 04:23, JD Brown wrote: > > > Can someone clarify what the difference is between the iso's available > > > from the 2 urls? > > > > I stop agai

Re: Unable to boot install from CDs?

2006-05-25 Thread Matt Richardson
Have I missed something? Hints, concrete RTFMs, STFW are welcome. Gregory I don't know that I have much to add to this, but I do have a working install. From my apt sources.list, here's the CD I used: # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot amd64 Binary-1 (20060314

Re: Which AMD64 installer iso to use?

2006-05-25 Thread Francesco Pietra
On Tuesday 23 May 2006 21:48, Karl Schmidt wrote: > Francesco Pietra wrote: > > This is further confusing me. I reported last night to this list of > > successful (up to the stage of partitioning disks, when I had to delay > > the process because it was getting too late and I was unable from manua

Unable to boot install from CDs?

2006-05-25 Thread Gregory B. Prokopsky
Hi guys, My lab got shiny dual core AMD64 machines and I am trying to install Debian port for AMD64 on them with netinst images. * I tried Sarge CD, it booted, but keyboard was dead (USB). * I tried "snapshot" CD of testing, it didn't want to boot, just like if it wasn't a bootable CD. * I tried

Etch security updates

2006-05-25 Thread Birju Prajapati
Hi, I'm trying to track down security updates for etch on AMD64 for my sources.list. The following entry does not seem to work: deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free Giving the error: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/etch/updates/Release Unable to find

Re: tyan's raid1

2006-05-25 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Francesco Pietra wrote: > What about efficiency (speed and subtraction of cpu) and reliability (of > booting from the intact disk should the other one fail) of raid1 provided by > the mainboard Tyan K8WE S2895? It could be simply set from bios and thus ease > life. Any comparison with raid1 from

Re: Which AMD64 installer iso to use?

2006-05-25 Thread Karl Schmidt
Francesco Pietra wrote: Well, the mystery seems to have been solved by authority: the mini.iso has disappeared. My konqueror is answered: URL not found. Why that? Who did that? francesco pietra from http://amd64.debian.net/debian/dists/testing/README amd64 is now available on ftp.debian.org

Re: Asus a8n-sli and firewire

2006-05-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 02:29:28PM +0200, Alejandro Exojo wrote: > I'm about to buy a new computer, and I'm more or less decided on choosing a > A8N-SLI Premium motherboard. > > My main reason for choosing it, it's some good comments on this list, and the > fact that it has firewire/ieee 1394. I

tyan's raid1

2006-05-25 Thread Francesco Pietra
What about efficiency (speed and subtraction of cpu) and reliability (of booting from the intact disk should the other one fail) of raid1 provided by the mainboard Tyan K8WE S2895? It could be simply set from bios and thus ease life. Any comparison with raid1 from amd64 debian in case of applica

Re: Which AMD64 installer iso to use?

2006-05-25 Thread Francesco Pietra
Well, the mystery seems to have been solved by authority: the mini.iso has disappeared. My konqueror is answered: URL not found. Why that? Who did that? francesco pietra On Wednesday 24 May 2006 21:38, Karl Schmidt wrote: > JD Brown wrote: > > Read this to understand the basic Debian process CD/D

Asus a8n-sli and firewire

2006-05-25 Thread Alejandro Exojo
Hi! I'm about to buy a new computer, and I'm more or less decided on choosing a A8N-SLI Premium motherboard. My main reason for choosing it, it's some good comments on this list, and the fact that it has firewire/ieee 1394. I would like to know, though, if it is supported with Debian, and if s

Re: Which AMD64 installer iso to use?

2006-05-25 Thread Karl Schmidt
JD Brown wrote: Read this to understand the basic Debian process CD/DVD's. http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/ It's a bit long but it does answer the basic image questions. I already read that - it still does not explain the mystery of the release dates vs the time stamps on files in the daily b