Re: Sarge AMD64 installation won't boot

2006-01-24 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 12:21:10PM -0600, Ken Bloom wrote: > The package may have been renamed to linux-image-* instead of > kernel-image-*. It certainly would have been. :) Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

Re: Sarge AMD64 installation won't boot

2006-01-24 Thread Ken Bloom
Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 09:09:23AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>It worked beautifully. >> >>A day or two ago, the URL seems to have changed. >> http://tinyplanet.ca/~lsorense/amd64/ >>works now. > > > I didn't know port 81 had ever worked on that machine. It is

Re: Sarge AMD64 installation won't boot

2006-01-24 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 03:49:54AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > OK, I have a dumbass question: why is yaird necessary at all? Or more > accurately, why is an initrd necessary at all? Is it something about > 2.6.x kernels? Back when I built 2.4.x kernels for my Athlon XP machine, > I follwe

Re: Sarge AMD64 installation won't boot

2006-01-24 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 05:46:48PM -0500, Robert Isaac wrote: > You could even save yourself some effort and install Yaird from backports.org > :) It wasn't there when I did it. :) Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

Re: Sarge AMD64 installation won't boot

2006-01-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 03:49:54AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > and I never messed with an initrd. My understanding is that the purpose > of an initrd is to provide an image of a RAMdisk containing the modules > the kernel needs to access the root file system; but if the hardware and > filesy

Re: Sarge AMD64 installation won't boot

2006-01-23 Thread cmetzler
Robert Isaac wrote: > >> Upgrading past 2.6.12 requires getting yaird or initramfstools installed >> on sarge somehow. It can be done however. Yaird is not too hard to >> backport. > > You could even save yourself some effort and install Yaird from backports.org > :) OK, I have a dumbass que

Re: Sarge AMD64 installation won't boot

2006-01-23 Thread Robert Isaac
> Upgrading past 2.6.12 requires getting yaird or initramfstools installed > on sarge somehow. It can be done however. Yaird is not too hard to > backport. You could even save yourself some effort and install Yaird from backports.org :)

Re: Sarge AMD64 installation won't boot

2006-01-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 09:09:23AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It worked beautifully. > > A day or two ago, the URL seems to have changed. > http://tinyplanet.ca/~lsorense/amd64/ > works now. I didn't know port 81 had ever worked on that machine. It is run by one of my friends. > I now

Re: Sarge AMD64 installation won't boot

2006-01-23 Thread Andrew Syrewicze
On 1/22/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 09:49:41PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:> On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 10:50:22PM +, Jo Shields wrote:> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:> >> > >I haven't accepted the new AMD-64 box the computer store has > > >built for me

Re: Sarge AMD64 installation won't boot

2006-01-22 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 09:49:41PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 10:50:22PM +, Jo Shields wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > >I haven't accepted the new AMD-64 box the computer store has > > >built for me, because I can't get it to run in 64-bit mode. > > >

Re: Sarge AMD64 installation won't boot

2006-01-16 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 09:55:15PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sorry to sound terminally stupid, but I don't know how to translate a > URL like > http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian-amd64/debian-amd64/pool/main/ > into a deb line for /etc/apt/sources.list > And how does aptitude figure out w

Re: Sarge AMD64 installation won't boot

2006-01-15 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 01:52:19PM -0900, Greg Madden wrote: > > I use debian.csail.mit.edu. > > Sorry to sound terminally stupid, but I don't know how to translate a URL like http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian-amd64/debian-amd64/pool/main/ into a deb line for /etc/apt/sources.list And how does

Re: Sarge AMD64 installation won't boot

2006-01-15 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 10:50:22PM +, Jo Shields wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >I haven't accepted the new AMD-64 box the computer store has > >built for me, because I can't get it to run in 64-bit mode. > > > >I provided the sarge net-install CD's for both AMD-64 and the older > >386

Re: Sarge AMD64 installation won't boot

2006-01-15 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 15 January 2006 13:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I haven't accepted the new AMD-64 box the computer store has > built for me, because I can't get it to run in 64-bit mode. > > I provided the sarge net-install CD's for both AMD-64 and the older > 386 architectures. > > The netinstall for

Re: Sarge AMD64 installation won't boot

2006-01-15 Thread Jo Shields
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't accepted the new AMD-64 box the computer store has built for me, because I can't get it to run in 64-bit mode. I provided the sarge net-install CD's for both AMD-64 and the older 386 architectures. The netinstall for AMD64 went fine up to a point (except it w

Sarge AMD64 installation won't boot

2006-01-15 Thread hendrik
I haven't accepted the new AMD-64 box the computer store has built for me, because I can't get it to run in 64-bit mode. I provided the sarge net-install CD's for both AMD-64 and the older 386 architectures. The netinstall for AMD64 went fine up to a point (except it was 30 times as slow as the