Re: installing amd64 kernel

2005-12-22 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 07:06:05AM -0500, Aaron Stromas wrote: > I received a number of advices on installation of my AMD Athlon 64 machine. > This far I only was successful with (K)ubuntu. At one time I thought I got > the Debian daily installer to detect my built-in nVidia Ethernet, but I was > w

Re: installing amd64 kernel

2005-12-22 Thread Wackojacko
Richard Lyons wrote: I never did sort out the onboard nVidia sound, though. I had to rob an old SoundBlaster Live PCI card from another box. I had a few problems with this at first. The nvsound module did work but the card was not recognised by Alsa or Kcontrol Center, and I had to reinst

Re: installing amd64 kernel

2005-12-22 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday, 21 December 2005 at 21:12:28 +, Wackojacko wrote: > > > Aaron Stromas wrote: > >Greetings, > > > >I received a number of advices on installation of my AMD Athlon 64 [...] > > I had similar problems installing from the netinstall but luckily I had > an old PCI card to slot in

Re: installing amd64 kernel

2005-12-22 Thread Aaron Stromas
On 12/21/05, Wackojacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Aaron Stromas wrote:> Greetings,>> I received a number of advices on installation of my AMD Athlon 64> machine. This far I only was successful with (K)ubuntu. At one time I> thought I got the Debian daily installer to detect my built-in nVidia > Et

Re: installing amd64 kernel

2005-12-21 Thread Wackojacko
Aaron Stromas wrote: Greetings, I received a number of advices on installation of my AMD Athlon 64 machine. This far I only was successful with (K)ubuntu. At one time I thought I got the Debian daily installer to detect my built-in nVidia Ethernet, but I was wrong. I've burned too many CDs

Re: installing amd64 kernel

2005-12-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Aaron Stromas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 12/21/05, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Aaron Stromas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Finally, assuming I succeed in setting up the system the way I > like, can I > > simply edit the sources fil

Re: installing amd64 kernel

2005-12-21 Thread Aaron Stromas
On 12/21/05, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Aaron Stromas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:> Finally, assuming I succeed in setting up the system the way I like, can I > simply edit the sources file to return back to the Debian fold?You are assuming wrong.You will run into several probl

Re: installing amd64 kernel

2005-12-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Aaron Stromas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Finally, assuming I succeed in setting up the system the way I like, can I > simply edit the sources file to return back to the Debian fold? You are assuming wrong. You will run into several problems with incompatibilities between ubuntu and Debian. M

Re: installing amd64 kernel

2005-12-21 Thread Sven Krahn
On 12/21/05, Aaron Stromas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:   thanks. i presume you mean "comment out". "uncomment" means taking off the comment mark, i.e., enabling whatever was commented out. sorry for the little lesson, i'm not native english speaker either. Indeed, sorry... I was thinking faster than

Re: installing amd64 kernel

2005-12-21 Thread Sven Krahn
Hi Aaron,On 12/21/05, Aaron Stromas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here are a couple of question I have for the list. I initially did Kubuntu server install and ended up with no root (sudo passwd!) and one rootThe 'no root' is one of the specifics of Ubuntu intended to make the environment 'safe' for n

Re: installing amd64 kernel

2005-12-21 Thread Aaron Stromas
Hi Sven,   On 12/21/05, Sven Krahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Aaron, On 12/21/05, Aaron Stromas <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Here are a couple of question I have for the list. I initially did Kubuntu server install and ended up with no root (sudo passwd!) and one root The 'no root' is one of th

installing amd64 kernel

2005-12-21 Thread Aaron Stromas
Greetings,   I received a number of advices on installation of my AMD Athlon 64 machine. This far I only was successful with (K)ubuntu. At one time I thought I got the Debian daily installer to detect my built-in nVidia Ethernet, but I was wrong. I've burned too many CDs and I was actually booting