... image from an install of a year ago stops installing at 'tzdata' (tried 6 times now). A little newer: http://tmp.tryba.nl/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso Dates in the iso are Aug. 10 2006. I guess this is the image I used to install my machine. Maybe it works for you. -- When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all. Daniel Tryba
... didn't have support for SATA on the SAS controller (AIC9140). I hoped to use this relatively cheap controller to drive lots of disks. -- When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all. Daniel Tryba -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-REQUEST@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
... swap with a new generated key (never stored) for each reboot sound interesting. Could you share your experiences if you have this running? -- When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all. Daniel Tryba -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-REQUEST@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
... enabled). IIRC even when I used a hercules monitor XFree86 blanked the hercules textmode (and framebuffer (but that was to be expected)) -- When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all. Daniel Tryba -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-REQUEST@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 11:07:56PM +0100, Daniel Tryba wrote: Well, I personally have been trying debian kernels for a couple of weeks. A machine that has been running Debian/unstable with custom kernels for the last couple of years and always has been very stable, now is not detecting the soundcard every couple of reboots. And since I can't (mainly to lazy to figure out how to) get...
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 12:02:36AM +0100, Daniel Tryba wrote: Thanks for the link, but: -the machine having problems is not running a 64bit kernel -I already installed kernel headers and tried pointing the vmware-config to many places without success. /usr/src/linux-headers-x.y.z-w/include where x.y.z-w matches uname -r is the corract place to point vmware-config. I have yet to ...
... 3rd party patches. It's a vmware issue in this case, 1.0.1-29996 will compile againt the latest deb/unstable kernel (2.6.18.something). -- When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all. Daniel Tryba -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-REQUEST@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
On 11/08/06 12:02:36AM +0100, Daniel Tryba wrote: On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 05:38:50PM -0500, Jim Crilly wrote: I've been using the pre-built kernels since I got this AMD64 box without any hardware detection issues. If your soundcard disappears every couple of reboots I would be more suspicious of the hardware than the kernel. This is contradicted by the custom kernels not ...
...'t present when running custom kernels. 2 out of the 3 machines I'm tried to run deb. kernels on failed. The third on is running just fine. -- When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all. Daniel Tryba -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-REQUEST@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
On 11/07/06 11:07:56PM +0100, Daniel Tryba wrote: Well, I personally have been trying debian kernels for a couple of weeks. A machine that has been running Debian/unstable with custom kernels for the last couple of years and always has been very stable, now is not detecting the soundcard every couple of reboots. And since I can't (mainly to lazy to figure out how to) get VMWare ...
