amd64 debian installation steps
I forgot to ask: chroot 32 after complete installation as below described?
Hi Goswin:
I have seen your two further e-mails. Thank you indeed.
I started with the debian amd64 testing indicated previously (below) with a
plan to install pure 64bit and then a chroot for 32bit. I badly started too
late in the evening.
Hardware is recognized as far as I could see: DHCP configured from connection
to a Zyxel router to which my PC with debian testing 32 is also connected,
mirror (Germany) chosen, and even the 18 years old external scsi HD is read
(formatted fat32 for backup). This is encouraging because - for example - my
motherboard is given not supported by ubuntu.
However I stopped the installation at the stage of partitioning, in part
because it was not clear to me how to select the size of the partitions
(system, swap, home, and an unformatted space to later perhaps format vfat).
The largest space in the two 300GB HDs is deserved by to /home because the
calculations may need much space during execution, although mpqc is devised
to operate on ram.
Apart that, it was getting too late in the night. To resume tomorrow afternoon
after the teaching duties.
I understand that raid is to configure after having created the partitions. I
have seen - going back - the grub vs lilo choice. If I understand, to get a
second HD bootable - should the first one fail - I have to select lilo as
boot loader (after having configured raid1 or during that?)
Thanks a lot for your guidance (and exquisite patience).
francesco
On Monday 22 May 2006 01:00, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Francesco Pietra <frapietra@alice.it> writes:
> > Hi all:
> > I have followed with particular attention in the last few days all issues
> > on this list related to amd64 debian installation. Just because I have
> > now finally everything ready for a fresh installation on a fresh ready
> > workstation equipped with Tyan K8WE S2895 (bearing video card Pixelview
> > 6600 256M DDR DVI and a scsi card for external devices), a couple of dual
> > amd64 opteron, and a couple of 300GB SATA HD.
> >
> > For the benefit of poor guys like me who rarely carry out software
> > installations, could you please check my projected route, and its
> > sequence, for suitability/correctness?
> >
> > 1) Start with debian installer
> > Debian testing amd64 Bin-1/ISO9660 [93 MB] (CD-ROM waiting on my machine)
> > burned from
> > debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso [93.4 MB]
> > as downloaded yesterday from
> > http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
>
> If you can use sarge. That is the only one that will definetly work if
> your hardware gets recognised.
>
> > 2)Follow substantially a netinstall according to Roberto's howto
> > http://haydn.debian.org/~intero-guest/debian-amd64-howto.html
>
> Please try to follow the normal instructions from the Debian installer
> itself and report on shortcomings of the official documentation. This
> needs to be done by someone unfamiliar to spot things that are just
> done unconsciously on your 100th installation.
>
> > 3)Establish raid1. To this regard, I am at "Today 21:19:28" directions by
> > Alexander Siek. I understand Alexander has positively answered all
> > (nearly all?) criticism by Goswin. However, I must confess that i use a
> > pc with debian testing/unstable but I never established a raid before.
> > Therefore, I only hope to be able to follow Alexander's indications but
> > it would be better for me to read before some general instructions as to
> > establish a raid1. I have none yet.
>
> The D-I can instal directly onto raid. You just have to select manual
> partitioning instead of a preset menu. Everything will be done for you
> through the menus then. Everything except getting the other drives of
> a raid1 to be bootable if you use grub.
>
> > 4)Install 32b applications into a chroot as indicated in both Roberto's
> > howto above and, for what I need, ie not sound) in
> > http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/356
> > without, however, following step
> > 1.4) You also need a link to your 32bit linker in the /lib path:
> > $ cd /lib
> > $ ln -s /var/sid-386-chroot/lib/ld-linux.so.2 ld-linux.so.2
> > because I read somewhere that installed libraries are linked per se.
>
> Don't link the ld, just install the ia32-libs or libc6-i386 package
> that contain the ld and links directly. Anything else appears to cause
> problems on future upgrades.
>
> > I hope the kernel provided supports my mainboard and I wish myself good
> > luck. But there cannot be good luck without some guidance. Thanks a lot
> >
> > francesco pietra
>
> MfG
> Goswin
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