Re: Hello! from a newbie+ problems with debian for amd64+can't boot debian for i386 on amd64 from cd+can't extract sbm.bin from cd

2005-11-28 Thread Sven Mueller
Chris DiVirgilio wrote on 28/11/2005 20:35: > On Nov 27, 2005, at 7:19 PM, Thomas Drillich wrote: > >>if you are a real newby, you may wait until december. As I knew >>debian etch should be finished in december, and there amd64 should >>be one of the standard supported systems. > > December? R

Re: Nice server board for AMD64/EM64T?

2005-11-23 Thread Sven Mueller
Soenke von Stamm wrote on 23/11/2005 16:35: > Tyan Thunder K8SR S2881. I have one of them running under Linux in a high > load [...] > The board starts at €404, this ones is for 1U with only two slots. There are > almost identical boards with more slots like Thunder K8SD Pro S2882. I found > th

Nice server board for AMD64/EM64T?

2005-11-23 Thread Sven Mueller
Hi. I'm going to replace a server (keeps crashing due to some unknown reason since about a month, ran for 1year rocksolid before - I was able to limit the source to be one of mainboard, processor or RAM), and because I definately want hardware RAID and already have 8 HDs in the old server (a total

Re: installing Oracle on Debian AMD64

2005-10-31 Thread Sven Mueller
Adam Skutt wrote on 31/10/2005 18:33: > Sven Mueller wrote: > >>It locks finer than a single column? > > MySQL only locks that fine if you're blessed enough not to be using > MyISAM. True. > Postgresql locks at less than table-granularity all the time. F

Re: installing Oracle on Debian AMD64

2005-10-31 Thread Sven Mueller
Lennart Sorensen wrote on 31/10/2005 15:41: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 09:51:31PM +0200, Jean-Christophe Montigny wrote: > >>Well, I am afraid I'm not quite postgresql-literate, and I live by the >>(perhaps false) assumption that PostgreSQL and MySQL are more or less >>the same : open source data

Re: Debian AMD64 Sarge released

2005-06-16 Thread Sven Mueller
Dr. Gabriel Pataky wrote on 16/06/2005 10:20: > ich habe mir die dvd-iso-datei von sarge für die amd64-er architektur > heruntergeladen und auch problemlos gebrannt. die installation bricht > jedoch bei "libparted1.6-udeb erbarmungslos ab. der grund dessen ist mir > schleierhaft. bitte um hilfe Ab

Re: Debian AMD64 Sarge released

2005-06-09 Thread Sven Mueller
Lucio Pileggi wrote on 09/06/2005 16:26: > Joerg Jaspert ha scritto: >>CD and DVD images will be made available on cdimage.debian.org, try >>http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/sarge-amd64/ as soon as the >>images are built, which should be today or tomorrow. > > In that directory I found

Re: security packages on amd 64

2005-06-02 Thread Sven Mueller
Frederik Schueler wrote on 31/05/2005 15:36: > Hello, > > See http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/05/msg4.html > > On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 09:13:49AM +0200, pedro machado wrote: > >>Where can i find the security updates for amd 64 ? > > security updates for debian-amd64 sarg

Re: user dchroot does not work

2005-05-12 Thread Sven Mueller
Alexander Fieroch wrote on 12/05/2005 14:50: > > Javier Kohen wrote: > >>I'm not sure this could cause that message, but does the user's home >>directory exist in the chroot? > > Yes the user's home directory does exist. It's a complete debian ia32 > installation on a separate partition. > The u

Re: Mirrors of AMD64

2005-05-08 Thread Sven Mueller
Joerg Jaspert wrote on 07/05/2005 18:17: > As there are some questions about the mirror stuff I just put a small > site together explaining the most important things to know. > > Look at it here: http://amd64.debian.net/~joerg/mirror.html > > Yes, we appreciate any new mirrors, so just mail me if

Re: Release critical bugs for amd64/sarge

2005-05-06 Thread Sven Mueller
Andreas Jochens wrote on 06/05/2005 08:58: > Of course there are still a few other packages which did not apply the > necessary patches for amd64. However, I think that those packages and > all their dependencies can simply be removed from the amd64/sarge release: Oh well, there are a few I woul

Re: AMD64 archive move

2005-05-04 Thread Sven Mueller
Stephan Seitz wrote on 04/05/2005 17:45: > On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 03:31:58PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >>>ftp://amd64.debian.net/debian work too. Is correct to use it? >> >>If you must. Http is prefered by almost everyone as it doesn't require >>makeing a new connection for every file

Re: cupsys broken in pure64 (testing)

2005-04-25 Thread Sven Mueller
Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote on 25/04/2005 19:06: > A Dilluns 25 Abril 2005 16:05, Sven Mueller va escriure: > >>David Liontooth wrote on 24/04/2005 19:15: >> >>>Sven Mueller wrote: >>> >>>>When trying to install cupsys/cupsys-bsd/cupsys-client

Re: cupsys broken in pure64 (testing)

2005-04-25 Thread Sven Mueller
David Liontooth wrote on 24/04/2005 19:15: > Sven Mueller wrote: >>When trying to install cupsys/cupsys-bsd/cupsys-client from >>debian-pure64 testing, the installation fails because >> >>cupsys-client: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-21) but 2.3.2.ds1-20 is >>ins

cupsys broken in pure64 (testing)

2005-04-23 Thread Sven Mueller
Hi. When trying to install cupsys/cupsys-bsd/cupsys-client from debian-pure64 testing, the installation fails because cupsys-client: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-21) but 2.3.2.ds1-20 is installed. cupsys-bsd: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-21) but 2.3.2.ds1-20 is installed. cupsys: Depends: libc6 (

Mirror traffic

2005-04-02 Thread Sven Mueller
hi. I somehow think I saw this discussion come up before, but I'm either too tired or too blind (or both) to find it: If I would set up a public debian-amd64 mirror, how much traffic would I need to expect? i.e. Could those who currently run mirrors please post the approximate network utilizat

Re: Normal buildtime for a kernel?

2005-03-23 Thread Sven Mueller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 23/03/2005 14:53: Well, but more than a half of the compile time up to 2/3rds account to system time, which I think is somewhat excessive. Sounds as if you don't have DMA enabled on the discs. What does 'hdparm -d' say about your disc(s)? -c might also be interesting. cu

Re: syslinux and bootcd packages

2005-03-11 Thread Sven Mueller
Kurt Roeckx wrote on 11/03/2005 19:03: On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 02:56:57PM +0100, Sven Mueller wrote: Hi. I needed to create a bootable AMD64 CD yesterday and to get there, I installed a fairly minimal debian-pure64 (sarge) installation and created AMD64 packages for syslinux and bootcd (along

syslinux and bootcd packages

2005-03-11 Thread Sven Mueller
Hi. I needed to create a bootable AMD64 CD yesterday and to get there, I installed a fairly minimal debian-pure64 (sarge) installation and created AMD64 packages for syslinux and bootcd (along with bootcd-amd64). While fixing bootcd to build and work on AMD64 was pretty trivial, building syslin

Re: aptitude loosing its mind?

2005-03-05 Thread Sven Mueller
Ed Tomlinson wrote on 06/03/2005 00:06: In any case, if you wish to keep it on your system, just mark it as manually installed 'm' in aptitude. Is there any way to do this from the command line? Yes, at least a workaround is possible: Abort whichever operation would uninstall the package, then apt

Which netinst ISO to use for /debian-pure64 (Sarge)?

2005-03-04 Thread Sven Mueller
Hi. I used a netinst ISO from Feb 16th, but it has at least two issues: 1) libc6 is installed in a version not available in debian-pure64 and therefor build-essentials isn't installable unless the user specifically downgrades libc6 (and bash and base-files) 2) The Sysmlinks for the current ke

Problem with vncserver

2005-02-28 Thread Sven Mueller
Hi. the vncserver from the equally named package doesn't work for me. It always logs the same error: Feb 28 19:17:22 europa kernel: Xrealvnc[13691]: segfault at 95e2e810 rip 002a95c8ef57 rsp 007fb6c0 error 4 Any idea why this might be? Well, debugging a little further, it se

Re: can't get libc6-dev

2005-02-21 Thread Sven Mueller
clement wrote on 22/02/2005 00:24: i'm pretty new to this list (and in debian 64 world !), but when i try to install libc6-dev i've got an error (translation) : Following packages have unmet dependencies : libc6-dev: Dépend: libc6 (= 2.3.2.ds1-20) but 2.3.2.ds1-20.0.0.1.pure64 should be installe

Re: What will happen when sarge becomes officially stable?

2005-02-21 Thread Sven Mueller
Goswin von Brederlow wrote on 21/02/2005 17:48: We plan to release an inofficial sarge-amd64 shortly after sarge (allow for a final sync and check that everything is fine, create CDs, DVDs, ...). Great. I don't mind it being released a bit later than the official sarge. Obviously it would be grea

un! What will happen when sarge becomes officially stable?

2005-02-21 Thread Sven Mueller
Hi. I have seen various diverging infos about what will happen to the AMD64 ports once Sarge becomes stable. So to have some more background on a few decisions (mostly for home use) I have to make: What will happen to the two AMD64 ports (pure-64 and gcc3.4) once Sarge becomes stable? Will the

Re: Tracking sarge

2005-02-05 Thread Sven Mueller
Kurt Roeckx wrote on 03/02/2005 18:24: >> On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 05:54:35PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> > >From what I heart you won't feel the difference. The advantage of a 64bit kernel lies in having more than 3GB address space (more than 4GB for 64bit) programs and the po

Re: amd64 installation images

2004-09-06 Thread Sven Mueller
Goswin von Brederlow [u] wrote on 06/09/2004 21:04: Sven Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I am planning to deploy the amd64/pure64 version of Debian on a new system. However while investigating the netinst images at http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/debian-installer/daily/netboot/ I n

amd64 installation images

2004-09-06 Thread Sven Mueller
Hi. I am planning to deploy the amd64/pure64 version of Debian on a new system. However while investigating the netinst images at http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/debian-installer/daily/netboot/ I noticed that the initrd misses something I would need in there: the 3ware 3w-.ko and/or 3