On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 22:24:36 +0800, Benimaur Gao wrote: > >> I bought a new Laptop a few days ago, it's an X220i, and I planned >> to install a amd64 system on it >> I dump a netinst iso(amd64) image to a flash disk by dd, boot and >> try to work with it, but I found it just cannot use. :( > > "Cannot use" means that you already installed a full system on your > machine?
No... sorry for my crappy English, I mean I can't use it to install system. > >> it's so easy to get crash after some trivial commands, such as 'tar >> xjvf', 'rsync -av', etc. The system just hang after dumping some info, I >> can't write them down entirely, too much content, I saw the keywords are >> about 'SMP', 'protecting'... > > The information you give is a bit chaotic. Can you please explain what > packages are installed in your system (full desktop environment, text > based install...), run any of the mentioned commands and put here the > output? OK. 1. I dd the netinst iso to a flash disk & boot the machine with it. 2. I try to rsync the whole system to my new machine by "rsync -av /* --exclude={/home/user/*,/sys/*,/dev/*,/proc/*,/mnt/*} then the system got crash... //if this succeed, then I can chroot into the new 'system', install the kernel and grub, etc. I always use this way to install OS... > >> Another two things I have tried: >> 1. I boot my old X61 with the same usb, It works OK with the >> previous deadly commands.. >> 2. I change to an i386 image, It works fine with my new X220i and >> the same commands. >> I hope to install the amd64 and I need your assistance! thank you!! > > I'm afraid more precission and detailed information is required to > discover what can be happing here because amd64 images are as good as > i386 so the problem has to be elsewhere :-? there are too much dump info... I hope i can upload a picture captured by my phone as an alternative... errr.. do I create the bootable usb in a wrong way?? what's proper method to do that?? unetbootin is required?? >> >> //btw, another thing to complain :( >> I think it's very inconvenient to work with a netinst iso that lack >> of wpasupplicant! The WLAN and wpa/wpa2 authentication is so ubiquitous >> nowadays, It's annoying to find a UTP cable.. > > Wireless is available at install time but only WEP for Squeeze images > (WPA is an option since wheezy, IIRC). Anyway, installing is the most > delicated step, nothing I would rely to a wireless data layer :-) > > Greetings, > > -- > Camaleón > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jtun3d$83b$9...@dough.gmane.org > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAHAMYh3++jNjoQ8esxUm7RfD8nc_mnJf=j3fohzdb_gg8rg...@mail.gmail.com