I'm having some issues installing etch on a laptop running amd 64 x2. I used the i386 release 1st DVD iso. The last time I touched linux was like 8 years ago.
I set up a couple partitions in vista (I realize this is not the best way to do it) to be used for the filesystem and swap area for a dual boot. I manually configured the partitions using the installer, but I got an message while the installer was installing the packages about how the swap space was not active. On first boot, the GUI appeared to come up as a greyish background, but the grey graphic was changing to a charcoal color, with no progress. When I try to boot into single user, it locks up. Here is the last line: Checking TSC synchronization across 2 CPUs. CPU#0 had -543 usecs TSC skew, fixed it up. CPU#0 had 543 usecs TSC skew, fixed it up. ...so I booted from a rescue CD and checked the partition table for / dev/sda. Here is a summary of each device: sda1 is the largest partition with the boot sector and vista, NTFS, ~95GB sda2 appears to be a hidden windows recovery partition, ~2GB sda3 is the linux filesystem which is supposed to mount at / when booted, 10GB sda4 is another windows partition for recovery ~6GB sda5 is the swap partition "Linux Swap/Solaris" at 2GB I tried mkswap /dev/sda5 followed by swapon /dev/sda5 to no avail. So, I guess I'm feeling pretty clueless here. FWIW, I was able to install using the same DVD image on an older laptop (only linux--no dual boot) with no problems. Cheers, Buzz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
