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debian on sager 4060

post #1 of 8
10/25/03 at 8:25pm
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I've given up on knoppix. I found an old cd labeled "bf2.4.18 netinst" which is currently installing. It got past the first stage and actually booted linux off the hard disk. hoo ray.

I'm doing it reiserfs. I've got a 60GB 5400RPM drive and I left 1GB for swap.

I should mention that I had half a dozen cd-r's with different versions of bootfloppies. None of them worked, this was the last one in the stack.

OK, I skipped tasksel and now I'm doing the minimum of what dselect says I need.

While I'm waiting, I'm wondering now about this BIOS setting I noticed which I have never seen before. It was a choice between WinNT/2000 and win95/98/ME. WTF? Does anyone have any idea what affect this has? I tried many of the installers both ways. This one I happened to start out with it in win95/98/ME mode. I hope it doesn't bite me.

Uh oh, I just heard my wife and kid drive up. More later....
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post #2 of 8
10/26/03 at 3:15pm
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OK, this seems to totally work. The only trick I had with the installer was to manually select the 8139too net driver. Upgrading to debian/unstable went smoothly. Now onto the dreaded xserver-xfree86 configuration. I'm going to go with the 4.3 .debs in experimental (i.e. deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian ../project/experimental main contrib)

If anyone wants the ISO for the woody netinst that I found, reply to this and I'll put it up somewhere.
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post #3 of 8
10/26/03 at 8:54pm

Debian rarely fails...

Glad it did work for you. If you want to use experimental and the latest packages, you should upgrade to debian testing/unstable aka Sid. To do so, edit /etc/apt/sources.list, change the "stable" or "sarge" to "sid" , then 'apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade' as root will make you be on sid. I will advise to do that early, when you haven't apt-get much software yet, just to have a smooth upgrade. Whatever was installed under woody / stable needs to be re downloaded and re installed for sid, if you decide to, which hey, i recommend.
You do NEED to be running Sid in order to use experimental debs.

Then add the line deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ ../project/experimental main to your /etc/apt/sources.list ( us is generic site, maybe you will need a better mirror ), then apt-get update && apt-get upgrade.

Hope that helps.
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post #4 of 8
10/27/03 at 3:50am
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Mostly this is just a success journal

Once I found a good version of a debian installer it's been pretty much by the numbers. I installed 4.3.0 pre1v3 from experimental (also described by a message above). The autoconfig worked great except that it didn't have 1400x1050 as an option so I had to list it manually for each of the bitdepths in the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.

touchpad works with no special config.

I'm building 2.6pre9 right now w/ALSA and various other goodies so we'll see how that works.

The camera is not listed as a PCI device. Does anyone know how it's connected? USB?
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post #5 of 8
10/27/03 at 4:31am
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2.6 test9.... Nope

I got the same hang during boot that I got with the knoppixes and the non-working recent debian installers. I'm thinking maybe there's something in the newer kernels that tries to be too smart about some hardware in the 4060. This is going to require some process of elimination. Sigh.
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post #6 of 8
10/27/03 at 10:15pm
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This is REALLY weird

I compiled a new version of 2.4.18 using the config left over in my /boot directory from the install. I built it with gcc-2.95. In theory it should be the same as the one from the install but it hangs just like all the other kernels. I am totally stumped.
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post #7 of 8
10/27/03 at 11:08pm
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hooray for Herbert Xu!

2.6-test9-i386-1 just showed up in unstable and it boots on the 4060. I'm still bothered by the fact that I can't seem to build a working kernel but I'll put off resolving that until later.
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post #8 of 8
10/28/03 at 2:46am
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test9 seems to work even if i build it

on to the madwifi challenge....
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