Re: Re: Sarge i386 with AMD64 3200+ and Gigabyte GA K8-NS Pro (nForce3) ?

From: Remi Butaud (lefrog06_at_gmail.com)
Date: 03/23/05

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    Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 22:37:01 +0100
    To: Manu <seatmanu@yahoo.com>
    
    

    Hi,

    thanks for the update. I've run the latest testing image (daily build)
    and it worked nearly like a charm (it's finishing off its installation
    right now).

    The only hiccup was that it didn't see the NIC at first (it only saw
    two IEE1394 firewire ethernet NIC), and I had to exit to a shell and
    type 'modprobe forcedeth' - the Nforce3 ethernet driver and dhcclient.
    And then everything was simple. I could hardly believe it :)

    It was so smooth I have to try the amd64 version now :)

    Thanks for your help, guys.

    On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 09:55:37 -0800 (PST), Manu <seatmanu@yahoo.com> wrote:
    > Hi There
    >
    > I used the testing with new installer and it went
    > smoothly but would not recognise my gigabit ethernet
    > (using tg3 module).. The computer would freeze when
    > using web/ftp... or get a corrupted MAC when using ssh
    > I had to upgrade to a newer kernel and everything
    > started to work smoothly.. the 2.6.8 tg3 module is
    > broken.. started to work after 2.6.10..
    >
    > Sarge installer is good but testing is much better now
    > to configure your pc if you use a 2.6.x kernel
    >
    > Manu
    > --- Remi Butaud <lefrog06@gmail.com> wrote:
    >
    > > >The installation on my GigaByte K8-NS Pro went
    > > rather smoothly.
    > > >Well, the first installation didn't work at all,
    > > since the debian
    > > >installer apparently failed to format the
    > > partitions and it installed
    > > >everything "atop" the previous sarge installation
    > > used for testing.
    > > >But the second installation went smoothly.
    > > >Have you considered trying a liveCD for testing the
    > > motherboard ? I'd
    > > >give Knoppix a try and see if it works.
    > > >Another possibility is to try the yet not
    > > officially available debian
    > > >installer RC3:
    > > >http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
    > > >I suppose the daily snapshots (i.e. in 20050322/ or
    > > current/ ) are
    > > >already RC3 versions:
    > >
    > >http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/i386/.
    > > >
    > > >Best regards,
    > > >Hannes.
    > >
    > > Thanks for the quick answer! The debian users
    > > responsiveness wasn't
    > > just a myth it seems :)
    > >
    > > That's good to hear and gives me some comfort. I
    > > have little doubts
    > > about the motherboard as it's been running some
    > > other (commercial) OS
    > > for quite some time, and that I finally suceeded in
    > > having it run a
    > > testing version of debian (through the woody ->
    > > sarge upgrade path)
    > > which gave me only partial satisfaction with regards
    > > to network
    > > interface, but that was rather due to my being
    > > linux-challenged.
    > > However, I have experienced the problem with
    > > formatting partitions too
    > > as when I tried to do a write partitions to disk, it
    > > answered me about
    > > ne being able to mount root parition to /dev/hda1,
    > > go figure.
    > >
    > > I think I will give the installer RC3 a shot, and
    > > hopefully, will end
    > > up in the debian-installer happy users family. (I
    > > _want_ to install
    > > sarge through the installer or get to the bitter end
    > > with it).
    > >
    > > I'll let you know how it went :)
    > >
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