Questions....

2007-07-13 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hello all, I have some questions, which appeared during the last weeks, maybe there is a short answer possible. 1. I am using reportbug, but I never get a response on my mail addresse. Although it seems, some reports are not send to the bugreport. What should I check ? 2. Same thematics

[OT?] LVM questions

2005-10-18 Thread Craig Hagerman
Hi, I recently bought a new hard drive. I alread have another big hard drive for files so altogether they have 450 GB. I decided to set up LVM on my system to make it easy to access both together and be able to add more space in the future, but I am a bit wary because I know little about LVM. Thi

Questions to chroot

2006-02-23 Thread Hans
Hi all, I have a slight question: Some times ago I needed chroot to get OpenOffice running. I still have some 32-Bit applications on my amd64-system. My question: Is 32-bit chroot still needed ? I heard about some changes in the past, which mentioneed, that compatibality-libs in amd64 shall ma

Finalize install questions

2004-12-05 Thread Robert LeBlanc
Hey guys,   We have purchased a 65 node cluster of Opterons last December and I have been following the development of the port off and on since then. I think that the port may be mature enough to put on our production environment just because I think that our biology applications could be

AMD64 X2 questions

2007-08-23 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hello list, I have an AMD64 dual-core cpu running debian-amd64. Now I have heard, that it might be possible, to run applications on different cpus. One app is running on cpu1 , the other on cpu2 at the same time. Or just using only one of the two cpu-cores. Is that right ??? (I know, that in M

hal: some questions

2008-01-27 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi all, I am trying to understand, how "hal" is working. When I mount a device (in my case it is an sd-card with ext2-filesystem) in KDE, I cannot copy files on it. This is because of the wrong setting of the rights: they are all set to "root". I heard of hal using pmount somewhow ? Is this c

Re: [OT?] LVM questions

2005-10-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Craig Hagerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I recently bought a new hard drive. I alread have another big hard > drive for files so altogether they have 450 GB. I decided to set up > LVM on my system to make it easy to access both together and be able > to add more space in the future, b

Re: Finalize install questions

2004-12-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 23:29 -0700, Robert LeBlanc wrote: > Hey guys, > > We have purchased a 65 node cluster of Opterons last December and I > have been following the development of the port off and on since then. > I think that the port may be mature enough to put on our production > environmen

Re: Finalize install questions

2004-12-05 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Sat, 2004-12-04 23:29:48 -0700, Robert LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > First, a program needs to be specifically written for 64 bits? Or by > just recompiling using 64-bit libs usually good enough? A program needs to be *cleanly* written to compile on a 64 bi

Re: Finalize install questions

2004-12-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 14:37 +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > On Sat, 2004-12-04 23:29:48 -0700, Robert LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > First, a program needs to be specifically written for 64 bits? Or by > > just recompiling using 64-bit libs usually good en

Re: Finalize install questions

2004-12-05 Thread Alex Perry
Robert LeBlanc wrote: Hey guys, We have purchased a 65 node cluster of Opterons last December and I have been following the development of the port off and on since then. I think that the port may be mature enough to put on our production environment just because I think that our biology appli

Re: basic installtion questions

2005-02-13 Thread Henry Liu
Hi,   I am new user and want to install a debian linux version on my machine, that has following specifications.   1. CPU: AMD Athon 64 64 processor 3400+ 2. NIC: Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet 10/10/1000Base-T Adapter 3. VIdeo card: NVIDIA GeForc FX5200 4. Memory1.5 GB and so on.     I am wonderi

Re: basic installtion questions

2005-02-13 Thread Clive Menzies
On (13/02/05 11:43), Henry Liu wrote: > Hi, > > I am new user and want to install a debian linux version on my > machine, that has following specifications. > > 1. CPU: AMD Athon 64 64 processor 3400+ > 2. NIC: Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet 10/10/1000Base-T Adapter > 3. VIdeo card: NVIDIA GeF

two questions about packages

2006-07-18 Thread Wolfgang Mader
Hello list, since a real long time, two months or so, aptitude always wants to upgrade the package libselinux from version 1.30-1 to version 1.30-1 This is not bad, I think but anoying. Has someone an idea. And another package is a bit strange. The new googleearth-package package. I installed i

Re: AMD64 X2 questions

2007-08-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 05:08:49PM +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > I have an AMD64 dual-core cpu running debian-amd64. Now I have heard, that it > might be possible, to run applications on different cpus. One app is running > on cpu1 , the other on cpu2 at the same time. Or just using only one of

Re: AMD64 X2 questions

2007-08-23 Thread Chris Ahlstrom
* Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-08-23 11:45:11 -0400]: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 05:08:49PM +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > > I have an AMD64 dual-core cpu running debian-amd64. Now I have heard, that > > it > > might be possible, to run applications on different cpus. One app is >

Re: AMD64 X2 questions

2007-08-23 Thread Michael
Lennart, > probably don't have any good reason to. The scheduler does a great job Do you know if the kernel tries to balance load really equally ? For my 2core AMD64 it seems cpu0 has to be about >70% before cpu1 gets involved. Another idea is, i always see cpu0 is the most busy one. But would

Re: AMD64 X2 questions

2007-08-23 Thread Ivan Paganini
I would like to know that also, my cpu0 is always under some load, and the cpu1 usually just sit tight... when I am not running some simulation. 2007/8/23, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Lennart, > > > probably don't have any good reason to. The scheduler does a great job > > Do you know if the k

Re: AMD64 X2 questions

2007-08-24 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 01:04:16AM +0200, Michael wrote: > Do you know if the kernel tries to balance load really equally ? > For my 2core AMD64 it seems cpu0 has to be about >70% before cpu1 gets > involved. > Another idea is, i always see cpu0 is the most busy one. But wouldn't > switching the

Re: AMD64 X2 questions

2007-08-24 Thread Jim Crilly
On 08/24/07 01:04:16AM +0200, Michael wrote: > Lennart, > > > probably don't have any good reason to. The scheduler does a great job > > Do you know if the kernel tries to balance load really equally ? > For my 2core AMD64 it seems cpu0 has to be about >70% before cpu1 gets > involved. > Anoth

Re: AMD64 X2 questions

2007-08-24 Thread Chris Ahlstrom
* Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-08-24 09:27:34 -0400]: > In fact if you have three processes to run and in total they need 90% of > one cpu, then it is better to run it all on one cpu and let the other > one go to power saving mode rather than running half the load on each. > That doe

Re: AMD64 X2 questions

2007-08-25 Thread Michael
Thanks Lennart, thanks Jim, for the good points. I think i can accept the matter of facts ;) It's generally a great fun to read your postings. Just let me say thx here for sharing your insight. That should apply to all those real freaks on this list. kr micha ps. I imagine quadcore (and beyo

Re: AMD64 X2 questions

2007-08-26 Thread Jim Crilly
On 08/25/07 01:22:50PM +0200, Michael wrote: > > Thanks Lennart, thanks Jim, for the good points. > I think i can accept the matter of facts ;) > > It's generally a great fun to read your postings. > Just let me say thx here for sharing your insight. > That should apply to all those real freaks

Re: AMD64 X2 questions

2007-08-26 Thread Michael
Just to avoid confusion...cpuset seems to be the kernel thing, and taskset is the related userspace tool ? > What is an 'optical imbalance'? If one pane of the load-monitor is green and the other is black ;) It looks like it's not 'balanced' but you really clarified that issue now. -- To UNS

Re: AMD64 X2 questions

2007-08-26 Thread Jim Crilly
On 08/26/07 11:26:27PM +0200, Michael wrote: > > Just to avoid confusion...cpuset seems to be the kernel thing, and taskset is > the related userspace tool ? > Yes taskset is the userland tool for setting CPU affinity but it's only for setting CPU affinity while cpusets also restrict the nodes

Re: AMD64 X2 questions

2007-08-27 Thread Michael
Just FYI - a nice one is $ taskset 01 yes | sha1sum versus $ taskset 03 yes | sha1sum to see a dualcore's different affinities in a load monitor. (Regards to Bob Prolux) m°

Re: hal: some questions

2008-02-01 Thread Michael
Hans, HAL does not depend on pmount, but pmount depends on libhal-storage. KDE kio-plugins use pmount, while Gnome use gnome-volume-manager and gnome-vfs. pmount installs an additional warpper pmount-hal. According to the pmount manpage, you need users in the group 'plugdev' (debian.) But HAL

Questions about the nvidia packages.

2006-01-11 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. First of all. Until now (I've just switched from i386 to a amd64 Debian) I've always used the vanilla files from nvidia.com (and their installer). The problem of course is that this passes the package systems, overwrites Xlibs etc. etc. So I'd like to use the Debian way now :-) However, I m

Re: Re: Finalize install questions

2004-12-05 Thread Robert LeBlanc
  > Currently, apps like mplayer and OpenSSL run much faster on x86-32 > because such core routines are in hand-coded assembler.   > For most other things, though, GCC 3.4 uses the extra 8 registers > to good effect.   I think that is where we will see most of our improvements is in

Re: Re: Finalize install questions

2004-12-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 11:01 -0700, Robert LeBlanc wrote: > > Currently, apps like mplayer and OpenSSL run much faster on x86-32 > > because such core routines are in hand-coded assembler. > > > For most other things, though, GCC 3.4 uses the extra 8 registers > > to good effect. > > I think that

Re: Installation questions on AMD64

2005-02-18 Thread Henry Liu
I am new user and trying to install Debian AMD64 through "Sid -AMD64-netinst" CD on my machine that has following specifications. 1. CPU: AMD64 3400+ 2. Marvel Yukon Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter 3. Video card: GeForce FX5200 Currently I installed a new kernel 2.6.8-10-amd64-k8 and al

Re: two questions about packages

2006-07-18 Thread Thierry Chatelet
Wolfgang Mader wrote: Hello list, since a real long time, two months or so, aptitude always wants to upgrade the package libselinux from version 1.30-1 to version 1.30-1 This is not bad, I think but anoying. Has someone an idea. And another package is a bit strange. The new googleearth-packag

Re: two questions about packages

2006-07-19 Thread Wolfgang Mader
> My german is not that good, but I think that, for googleearth, the > installer is looking for xserver or something similar, and it does not > fing it because you are running ./googleearthbin from root. Try it > as a normal user, should work > Thierry I tried as user and as root with exported

Re: two questions about packages

2006-07-19 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Mittwoch, 19. Juli 2006 20:05 schrieb Wolfgang Mader: > > My german is not that good, but I think that, for googleearth, the > > installer is looking for xserver or something similar, and it does not > > fing it because you are running ./googleearthbin from root. Try it > > as a normal user,

Re: two questions about packages

2006-07-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Wolfgang Mader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello list, > > since a real long time, two months or so, aptitude always wants to upgrade > the > package > libselinux from version 1.30-1 to version 1.30-1 > This is not bad, I think but anoying. Has someone an idea. Run aptitude clean and remove s

Re: Questions about the nvidia packages.

2006-01-11 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 04:49:16PM +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Hi. > > First of all. Until now (I've just switched from i386 to a amd64 Debian) > I've always used the vanilla files from nvidia.com (and their installer). > > The problem of course is that this passes the package system

Re: Questions about the nvidia packages.

2006-01-11 Thread Adam James
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 16:49 +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > 1) I'm using my own kernel created with make-kpkg. > With my old i386 system I've always used the vanilla sources but now > I'll give the debian sources a try. > So I've installed linux-tree-something. > > First of all is there

Kernel 2.6.15-1-XXX: Some Questions

2006-03-01 Thread Hans
Hello all, I saw lots of patches in /usr/src/kernel-patches. How do I have to understand this ? - Are the original debian-kernel-sourcen already patched or do I have to patch a kernel myself ? - Is this syntax correct (i.e. debianlogo): "make-kpkg --append-to-version -1-amd64-k8 --added_patc

The new ia32-libs some questions

2005-07-17 Thread Hans
Hi Goswin, I installed as suggested your new package amd64-archive_0.2_amd64.deb. Question: Are the packages debian-keyring and reprero needed ? I read somwhrere, debian-keyring should no be used. Question: In sources.list i added this entry: # Goswins # deb http://amd64.debian.net/~goswi

Fist-time amd64 installation, some questions

2006-08-27 Thread Jan De Luyck
Hello all, I managed today to get Debian installed on my desktop pc. Said pc is an ABIT KN9-SLI board with an AMD 64x2 AM2 cpu. I upgraded to Sid, and then went on to compile a custom kernel. I think I got nearly everything right, but there are some things that I find very strange, and would

a few dumb questions about wine

2011-12-29 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Folks, I tried using wine after a long time. I installed it using synaptic and nosed around to see what had happened. I am running squeeze amd64 on a newish amd64 novatech box. I noticed that under the system tools menu window a wine configuration icon appeared. I clicked on it and I got

Re: Kernel 2.6.15-1-XXX: Some Questions

2006-03-01 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 03:35:07PM +0100, Hans wrote: > I saw lots of patches in /usr/src/kernel-patches. How do I have to understand > this ? > > - Are the original debian-kernel-sourcen already patched or do I have to > patch > a kernel myself ? As far as I can tell, debian kernel-source/li

Re: [Retrieved]Re: Re: Finalize install questions

2004-12-06 Thread Alex Perry
Ron Johnson wrote: On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 11:01 -0700, Robert LeBlanc wrote: I guess I would have to run tests to see. Another problem is that these programs can be memory hogs and the nodes only have 512 MB of RAM which is another concern. Lack of sufficient RAM seems like a much bigger issue than

Wifi issue and AMD64 and kernel questions

2005-03-21 Thread Manu
questions as I have some problems configuring the WIFI: 1) have installed this package as I have an AMD64 * kernel-image-2.6.10-9-amd64-k8 is it a 32 bit package or 64bits? Anything special to this kernel ? Am I better of using a really x386 package for now? 2) I need to use the

Re: The new ia32-libs some questions

2005-07-17 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Goswin, > > I installed as suggested your new package amd64-archive_0.2_amd64.deb. > > Question: > > Are the packages debian-keyring and reprero needed ? > > I read somwhrere, debian-keyring should no be used. I need the ftpmaster 2005 archive key from /usr/

Re: [SPAM] Re: two questions about packages

2006-07-20 Thread Fielder George Dowding
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thierry Chatelet wrote: > Wolfgang Mader wrote: >> Hello list, >> >> since a real long time, two months or so, aptitude always wants to >> upgrade the package >> libselinux from version 1.30-1 to version 1.30-1 >> This is not bad, I think but anoying.

Re: Fist-time amd64 installation, some questions

2006-08-27 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 20:40:04 +0200, Jan De Luyck wrote: > Any pointers are most welcome! The first question is: why do you compile your own kernel? Isn't the Debian one enough? Does everything work OK with the Debian kernel? -- Best Regards, Jack Linux User #264449 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux o

Re: Fist-time amd64 installation, some questions

2006-08-27 Thread Jan De Luyck
On Sunday 27 August 2006 20:48, Jack Malmostoso wrote: > On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 20:40:04 +0200, Jan De Luyck wrote: > > Any pointers are most welcome! > > The first question is: why do you compile your own kernel? Isn't the > Debian one enough? I tend to follow-up a bit more quickly with new kernel

Re: Fist-time amd64 installation, some questions

2006-08-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jan De Luyck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sunday 27 August 2006 20:48, Jack Malmostoso wrote: >> On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 20:40:04 +0200, Jan De Luyck wrote: >> > Any pointers are most welcome! >> >> The first question is: why do you compile your own kernel? Isn't the >> Debian one enough? > > I t

Re: Fist-time amd64 installation, some questions

2006-08-29 Thread Giacomo Mulas
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: For amd64 there is no benefit in optimization for the specific cpu since there aren't any more different models than amd64 and em46t anyway. So the "only" benefit you get from a custom kernel is possibly no initrd (that's why I use my own kernel)

Re: a few dumb questions about wine

2011-12-29 Thread Robert Goley
I have had the most luck with the PlayOnLinux wrapper for Wine.  It allows for running multiple Wine versions as some version seem to work better for some programs.  It also handles the installation of those extra binary versions.  It has a list of supported apps to ease

Re: a few dumb questions about wine

2011-12-29 Thread Michael Fothergill
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Robert Goley wrote: > I have had the most luck with the PlayOnLinux wrapper for Wine. It > allows for running multiple Wine versions as some version seem to work > better for some programs. It also handles the installation of those extra > binary versions. It

Re: a few dumb questions about wine

2011-12-29 Thread Dean Hamstead
Hi Michael Wine is constantly rolling forward, with releases monthly and more. The do differentiate between 'stable' and 'development' releases - though in almost every case the 'development' release is what people are running. Unfortunately debian tends to stick with the 'stable' release, which i

Re: a few dumb questions about wine

2011-12-29 Thread Роман Франчук
29.12.2011 18:43, Michael Fothergill пишет: Dear Folks, I tried using wine after a long time. I installed it using synaptic and nosed around to see what had happened. I am running squeeze amd64 on a newish amd64 novatech box. I noticed that under the system tools menu window a wine configu

Re: Wifi issue and AMD64 and kernel questions

2005-03-21 Thread Javier Kohen
Hello Manu, El lun, 21-03-2005 a las 10:03 -0800, Manu escribiÃ: > 1) have installed this package as I have an AMD64 > * kernel-image-2.6.10-9-amd64-k8 > > is it a 32 bit package or 64bits? > Anything special to this kernel ? As far as I know it's a 64-bit kernel with IA32 emulation. In o

Re: Wifi issue and AMD64 and kernel questions

2005-03-21 Thread Manu
Hi Javier > > As far as I know it's a 64-bit kernel with IA32 > emulation. In other > words, the kernel is 64-bit, but it supports a > 32-bit user-land. Ah , that explains all the problem I had... I am not ready to fully move to 64 bits as not all the packages are working.. I need to run openo

Re: Wifi issue and AMD64 and kernel questions

2005-03-21 Thread Javier Kohen
Hi Manu, El lun, 21-03-2005 a las 10:31 -0800, Manu escribiÃ: > Hi Javier > > > > > As far as I know it's a 64-bit kernel with IA32 > > emulation. In other > > words, the kernel is 64-bit, but it supports a > > 32-bit user-land. > > Ah , that ... partially... > explains all the problem I ha

a few simple questions about AMD64 version of Debian

2006-12-17 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear AMD folks, I use the i386 versions of Sarge 3.1r3 and lately Etch RC1. I thought to buy myself an AMD 64 bit machine. I want to get a box that can have e.g. 10GB of RAM added to it. I noticed that some opteron machines exist on the internet with 10GB of RAM on them. Someone said that y

Re: [OT?] LVM questions - I have seriously screwed my system

2005-10-19 Thread Craig Hagerman
Thanks for the reply and explanation. I understand better now. Are you sure that Debian takes care of mounting the new LVM share on boot? It didn't work for me. From what I have read online you have to create your own startup script. I had LVM set up successfully on my new HD, copied all the data

Re: [OT?] LVM questions - I have seriously screwed my system

2005-10-19 Thread Matthias Julius
Craig Hagerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > WARNING: Re-reading the partition table failed with error 16: Device > or resource busy. > The kernel still uses the old table. > The new table will be used at the next reboot. > Syncing disks. This just means what is says. The disk is in use and the

Re: [OT?] LVM questions - I have seriously screwed my system

2005-10-19 Thread Paul Brook
> Debian will activate the VG but it will not mount the LVs automatically. > You still have to add them to /etc/fstab. If you're using root-on-lvm you may also need to regenerate your initrd before rebooting. Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: [OT?] LVM questions - I have seriously screwed my system

2005-10-19 Thread Craig Hagerman
On 10/20/05, Matthias Julius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This just means what is says. The disk is in use and the kernel can > not reread the partition table. You have to reboot to do that. Unfortunately I did reboot before I noticed the typo. After the reboot neither disc can be seen. > Ac

Re: [OT?] LVM questions - I have seriously screwed my system

2005-10-20 Thread Matthias Julius
Craig Hagerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But sdb1 had ALREADY been set up. Actually I had formatted it with > ext3, then followed the howto (pvcreate, vgcreate, lvcreate, mount) to > set up LVM and then copied all my old data over. So I then set the > partition type to LVM on a disc that alrea

Re: [OT?] LVM questions - I have seriously screwed my system

2005-10-20 Thread Craig Hagerman
On 10/20/05, Matthias Julius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: LVM does not find sda2.  What does pvdisplay /dev/sda2 say? % pvdisplay /dev/sda2   No physical volume label read from /dev/sda2   Failed to read physical volume "/dev/sda2"  I guess LVM only scans devices that have its type set to LVM.  So i

Re: [OT?] LVM questions - I have seriously screwed my system

2005-10-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Craig Hagerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 10/20/05, Matthias Julius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >LVM does not find sda2.  What does pvdisplay /dev/sda2 > say? > > > % pvdisplay /dev/sda2 >   No physical volume label read from /dev/sda2 >   Failed to read physical volu

Re: [OT?] LVM questions - I have seriously screwed my system

2005-10-20 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 03:54:12PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Mounting totaly ignores the partition type anyway. So that did > nothing. But running pvcreate will have overwritten some data. Well if pvcreate was run, and that is all, perhaps looking at the lvm backup data in /etc can tell

Re: [OT?] LVM questions - I have seriously screwed my system

2005-10-20 Thread Craig Hagerman
On 10/20/05, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mounting totaly ignores the partition type anyway. So that did > nothing. But running pvcreate will have overwritten some data. > > Try mounting with an alternate superblock and mount read-only and save > whatever you can. > What does

Re: [OT?] LVM questions - I have seriously screwed my system

2005-10-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) writes: > On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 03:54:12PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Mounting totaly ignores the partition type anyway. So that did >> nothing. But running pvcreate will have overwritten some data. > > Well if pvcreate was run, and that is all, pe

Re: [OT?] LVM questions - I have seriously screwed my system

2005-10-20 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 08:35:22PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > If I read that very confusing mail right then he did run pvcreate on > an ext3 filesystem. So the first superblock is probably wiped. Oh on a disk he already had data on and didn't want to use for lvm? Yeah taht would be bad.

Re: [OT?] LVM questions - I have seriously screwed my system

2005-10-20 Thread Matthias Julius
Craig Hagerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 10/20/05, Matthias Julius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> LVM does not find sda2. What does pvdisplay /dev/sda2 say? > > % pvdisplay /dev/sda2 > No physical volume label read from /dev/sda2 > Failed to read physical volume "/dev/sda2" > > I guess

apt wants to remove bash, base-files; other move questions

2005-05-09 Thread David Wood
Now using deb http://amd64.debian.net/debian/ sid main contrib An upgrade wants to remove base-files and bash. Digging deeper, I see base-files is being removed because: base-files pre-depends on libc6 (< 2.3.2.dsl-20.0.1) I saw some traffic on the list that looked similar. But I don't understa

Re: a few simple questions about AMD64 version of Debian

2006-12-17 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 13:00:09 +0100, Michael Fothergill wrote: > But there is an old opteron 940 pin board that is going out of fashion > and a new AM2 940 pin board coming in > > Can both of these let you add a wad of RAM to them? Yes. I'd go for the AM2 though. > How hard is it to instal

Re: a few simple questions about AMD64 version of Debian

2006-12-17 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 11:51:57AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear AMD folks, > > I thought to buy myself an AMD 64 bit machine. > > I want to get a box that can have e.g. 10GB of RAM added to it. I > noticed that some opteron machines exist on the internet with 10GB of > RAM on them. S

Re: a few simple questions about AMD64 version of Debian

2006-12-18 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 11:51:57AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > I use the i386 versions of Sarge 3.1r3 and lately Etch RC1. > > I thought to buy myself an AMD 64 bit machine. > > I want to get a box that can have e.g. 10GB of RAM added to it. > > I noticed that some opteron machines exist

Re: a few simple questions about AMD64 version of Debian

2006-12-18 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) To: Michael Fothergill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: a few simple questions about AMD64 version of Debian Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:49:14 -0500 On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 11:51:57AM +, Michael Fothergill

Re: a few simple questions about AMD64 version of Debian

2006-12-18 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 05:27:42PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Thanks, but suppose that I don't have enough money to buy the Core 2 Duo > barebones box at ?350 ($700) but I can afford an AMD Sempron 3000 box at > ?139 ($280). Would you prefer the AMD Sempron over a similarly priced > Int

Re: a few simple questions about AMD64 version of Debian

2006-12-18 Thread Freddie Cash
On Sunday 17 December 2006 03:51 am, Michael Fothergill wrote: > I thought to buy myself an AMD 64 bit machine. > I want to get a box that can have e.g. 10GB of RAM added to it. > I noticed that some opteron machines exist on the internet with 10GB of > RAM on them. Depending on the motherboard ch

Re: a few simple questions about AMD64 version of Debian

2006-12-18 Thread Freddie Cash
On Monday 18 December 2006 08:49 am, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 11:51:57AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Well most modern motherboards for Athlon64 and Core 2 Duo can take 4 > DIMMs, of up to 2GB each (if you can find them and afford them). So > that is 8GB ram. > > Opt

Re: a few simple questions about AMD64 version of Debian

2006-12-18 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 10:16:56AM -0800, Freddie Cash wrote: > For laptops and desktops, you really can't beat the Core architecture (for > which Intel has stupidly named the CPUs Core2). In single-core and > dual-core setups, these are the best CPUs around. > > For servers, though, I still pr

Re: a few simple questions about AMD64 version of Debian

2006-12-18 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 09:52:13AM -0800, Freddie Cash wrote: > Depending on the motherboard chipset, AMD64-based systems can have up to > 64 GB of RAM (that's the highest I've seen so far, in theory it can > address a lot more than that). This is highly chipset-dependent, though, > and you'll

Re: a few simple questions about AMD64 version of Debian

2006-12-18 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 12:36:17PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 05:27:42PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > Thanks, but suppose that I don't have enough money to buy the Core 2 Duo > > barebones box at ?350 ($700) but I can afford an AMD Sempron 3000 box at > > ?13

Re: a few simple questions about AMD64 version of Debian

2006-12-18 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 01:50:01PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 09:52:13AM -0800, Freddie Cash wrote: > > Depending on the motherboard chipset, AMD64-based systems can have up to > > 64 GB of RAM (that's the highest I've seen so far, in theory it can > > address a lot

Re: a few simple questions about AMD64 version of Debian

2006-12-19 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 08:47:33PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > Does this mean that when 4 GB sticks come out I can have 16 GB on my > Athlon 3800+? Well every board I have seen so far says that you can only use up to 2GB sticks, so I would say the answer is probably no. I don't actually know wh

Re: a few simple questions about AMD64 version of Debian

2006-12-19 Thread Freddie Cash
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 07:00 am, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 08:47:33PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > Does this mean that when 4 GB sticks come out I can have 16 GB on my > > Athlon 3800+? > > Well every board I have seen so far says that you can only use up to > 2GB st

Re: a few simple questions about AMD64 version of Debian

2006-12-19 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 08:29:13AM -0800, Freddie Cash wrote: > I haven't noticed any desktop-class motherboards that support larger than > 2 GB DDR DIMMS. But I don't follow desktop-class hardware too closely. > > The Tyan Thunder K8S/K8SR/K8SD Pro (S2882) server boards that we have here > (pu

Re: a few simple questions about AMD64 version of Debian

2006-12-19 Thread Paul Brook
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 16:29, Freddie Cash wrote: > On Tuesday 19 December 2006 07:00 am, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 08:47:33PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > > Does this mean that when 4 GB sticks come out I can have 16 GB on my > > > Athlon 3800+? > > > > Well every

Re: a few simple questions about AMD64 version of Debian

2006-12-19 Thread Francesco Pietra
--- LeLennartoSorensenlslsorensescsclubwuwaterlooa> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 08:29:13AM -0800, Freddie > Cash wrote: > > I haven't noticed any desktop-class motherboards > that support larger than > > 2 GB RIDIMMS But I don't follow desktop-class > hardware too closely. > > > > The T

Re: a few simple questions about AMD64 version of Debian

2006-12-19 Thread Matthias Julius
Paul Brook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I guess many manufacturers won't claim support for a particular dimm size > until they've actually tested them. I'd expect that many/most boards will > work with them once they are available, maybe requiring a bios upgrade. > > I've used 512Mb dimms in an

Re: a few simple questions about AMD64 version of Debian

2006-12-19 Thread Freddie Cash
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 10:03 am, Francesco Pietra wrote: > --- LeLennartoSorensenlslsorensescsclubwuwaterlooa> > I agree about Tyan, though the staff refused to talk > with Linux users, which I did not appreciate much). A Like they say, YMMV, results not typical. :) I've had excellent excha

Re: a few simple questions about AMD64 version of Debian

2006-12-19 Thread Francesco Pietra
--- Freddie Cash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 19 December 2006 10:03 am, Francesco > Pietra wrote: > > --- > LeLennartoSorensenlslsorensescsclubwuwaterlooa> > > I agree about Tyan, though the staff refused to > talk > > with Linux users, which I did not appreciate > much). A > > Like

Re: a few simple questions about AMD64 version of Debian

2006-12-20 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 11:39:16AM -0800, Freddie Cash wrote: > I've spent the last three years doing absolutely everything possible to > avoid the nForce chipsets (which is getting increasingly harder to > do). :) We don't have any servers running nVidia chipsets, I'm proud to > say (going al

Re: a few simple questions about AMD64 version of Debian

2006-12-20 Thread Marco Maske
Freddie Cash wrote: > I've spent the last three years doing absolutely everything possible to > avoid the nForce chipsets (which is getting increasingly harder to Yeah, I agree. > do). :) We don't have any servers running nVidia chipsets, I'm proud > to say (going all the way back to our dual-

Re: apt wants to remove bash, base-files; other move questions

2005-05-09 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
David Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now using > > deb http://amd64.debian.net/debian/ sid main contrib > > An upgrade wants to remove base-files and bash. Digging deeper, I see > base-files is being removed because: > > base-files pre-depends on libc6 (< 2.3.2.dsl-20.0.1) > > I saw some traff

Re: apt wants to remove bash, base-files; other move questions

2005-05-09 Thread David Wood
And for this, I get the response above. You probably think I don't know what it's like to be in your shoes and do a lot of work for nothing and have to answer stupid questions all the time. You're wrong. I know what it's like. But do you know what it feels like to try to use

Re: apt wants to remove bash, base-files; other move questions

2005-05-09 Thread Martin Dickopp
David Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now using > > deb http://amd64.debian.net/debian/ sid main contrib > > An upgrade wants to remove base-files and bash. Digging deeper, I see > base-files is being removed because: > > base-files pre-depends on libc6 (< 2.3.2.dsl-20.0.1) > > I saw some traff

Re: apt wants to remove bash, base-files; other move questions

2005-05-09 Thread Javier Kohen
El lun, 09-05-2005 a las 18:51 -0400, David Wood escribiÃ: > On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 23:21 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > And yet another person that hasn't been reading the ML for the last > > half year. Go fish. > > I know I'm ignorant and I screwed up, that much is obvious. But can I at

Re: apt wants to remove bash, base-files; other move questions

2005-05-09 Thread Chad Walstrom
ead the list. Definitely time for a FAQ or wiki update, then. ;-) You might cut these questions off before they're even asked. -- Chad Walstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.wookimus.net/ assert(expired(knowledge)); /* core dump */ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: apt wants to remove bash, base-files; other move questions

2005-05-09 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
u are unsure. > Why don't I ask, just to be sure. > > And for this, I get the response above. > > You probably think I don't know what it's like to be in your shoes and > do a lot of work for nothing and have to answer stupid questions all the > time. You'

Re: apt wants to remove bash, base-files; other move questions

2005-05-09 Thread David Wood
On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 01:18 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > I just told you where to look. Nothing against you. The ML archive is > full about this so everyone should be able to find it. The last big > thread was when the new libc6 got uploaded. Nothing against you either! I just wanted to tr

On the complexity order of algorithms (was: Re: AMD64 X2 questions)

2007-08-27 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 24 2007, Chris Ahlstrom wrote: > I found this recent article (by a Microsoft guy!) in Dr. Dobbs to be > interesting: > >http://www.ddj.com/hpc-high-performance-computing/201202924 (...) > * Comparing O(1) and O(K) Ugh! This article just shows that the Microsoft people should take

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