Clean sid? install to Tyan k8we

2005-10-04 Thread Toshikazu Aiyama, Ph.D.
I have succeeded a clean sid install to Tyan k8we as follows: Debian-installer-version: debian-testing-amd64-businesscard dated 10/04/05 http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/amd64/current/debian-testing-amd64-businesscard.iso uname -a: 2.6.12-1-amd64-k8-smp Date: Oct 5th, 2005

The Debian GNU/Linux AMD64 HOW-TO

2005-04-12 Thread Toshikazu Aiyama, Ph.D.
I believe Markus Benning has updated the HOWTO to reflect my previous comment. Or whoever has done it, thank you. But I think some people have still difficulty in following the steps; thus I have updated my local copy of chroot install only. I have attached my local HOWTO for reference. I used

Re: Installer and installed system differ in disk enumeration

2005-04-11 Thread Toshikazu Aiyama, Ph.D.
A.E.Lawrence wrote: The problems arise before those options are available :-( But it is possible to use grub's editing options to get an initial system. Then one can edit the grub configuration and /etc/fstab to match whichever kernel is loaded. The point is that the installer is setting

Installation fails at Install the base system

2005-02-19 Thread Toshikazu Aiyama, Ph.D.
My system is: CPU: AMD64 3200 M/B: Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe Memory: Samsung 512MB x 4 Video: Asus 6600GT x 2 Primary IDE: disabled by BIOS Secondary Master Plextor PX-605A Yamaha CRW-F1 NV SATA 3: Seagate 160GB 4: Seagate 160GB AHA-2940UW:

AMD64 HOW-TO

2005-02-16 Thread Toshikazu Aiyama, Ph.D.
I have updated chroot part of HOWTO somewhat extensively for everybody's use but as my personal reference. I attach the file. Please comment. Toshikazu Aiyama __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less.

AMD64 HOW-TO

2005-02-16 Thread Toshikazu Aiyama, Ph.D.
Sorry to all. Here it is. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Title: The Debian GNU/Linux AMD64 HOW-TO The Debian GNU/Linux AMD64 HOW-TOKevin M. Rosenberg[EMAIL PROTECTED]Nate

sid installation to SATA disk

2005-02-13 Thread Toshikazu Aiyama, Ph.D.
---Goswin wrote Different kernels have modules in a different order. Whatever gets loaded first becomes sda. This realy sucks and mkinitrd should realy strongly suggest and support using e2lables or uuid for the root device instead. Frankly I care less about what you are talking about. The key

sid installation to SATA disk

2005-02-13 Thread Toshikazu Aiyama, Ph.D.
Thank you for your advice. I know it's a lost cause. And SATA behaves more like SCSI. But I like two thing about IDE incomparison to SCSI. 1) It can have up to 63 partitions. SCSI device is allowed only 15 partitions. I need to adapt to LVM, I know. 2) No change of device name: If you connect

Another sata failure report

2005-02-13 Thread Toshikazu Aiyama, Ph.D.
--- Morten wrote ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x9F0 ctl 0xBF2 bmdma 0xEA00 irq 11 ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x970 ctl 0xB72 bmdma 0xEA08 irq 11 ata1 is slow to respond, please be patient ata1 failed to respond (30 sec) scsi0 : sata_nv .. pivot_root: no such file or directory

Tyan Tiger K8W (S2875ANRF) mainboard : did somebody try it ?

2005-02-13 Thread Toshikazu Aiyama, Ph.D.
Elmar is right. I have Tiger at home, and Thunder at my office. Thunder Tiger CPU 240 x 2 240 x 2 Memory DDR400 1GB x 8 DDR400 512MB x 4 All the memories must be registered. Tyan updates BIOS frequent enough. The only bad thing about Tiger is its GbE is

Graphicsproblems (Maybe OT)

2005-02-13 Thread Toshikazu Aiyama, Ph.D.
I have SLIed nv6600GT, and had similar problems. 1st one I somewhat solved using the approach at: http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/ Although there are some glitches, X is working. But of course I doubt if it's in SLI mode. I have not solved the 2nd problem. I like switching back

sid installation to SATA disk

2005-02-12 Thread Toshikazu Aiyama, Ph.D.
My PC's basic configuration is as follows: CPU: Athlon64 3200+ M/B: Asus A8N SLI Deluxe Memory: 4 x Samsung 512MB Video: 2 x Asus EN6600GT PATA: hda: Maxtor 6Y160PO hdc: Matshita DVD-RAM SW-9573S hdd: Yamaha CRW-F1E SATA: sda: Seagate ST3160B27AS sdb: