amd64 probs

[Mitch Thompson]

Mitch Thompson wrote:
> Jamon Camisso wrote:
>> Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> Greetings;
>>>
>>> I just bought, and I'm beginning to regret it, an HP Pavilion
>>> dv5320us, which has an amd turion 64 bit cpu in it.
>>>
>>> I've tried every known method to disable the ACPI stuffs and get the
>>> kubuntu-5.10-amd64.iso to boot, but its a universal freeze at the
>>> ACPI System Version yadda yadda point in the dmesg being output to the
>>> screen, and the only recovery seems to be standing on the power switch
>>> for >4 seconds.
>>>
>>> Whats busted, or should I just give up on trying to install an amd64
>>> version of anything on this $1100 POS?  Presumably the i386 stuff will
>>> run as the FC5 dvd runs far enough to pass its self check & then dies
>>> because all existing partitions on this drive are primary partitions.
>>> leaving no room for anything else.
>> I think I briefly met you on irc today, told you about using hoary in
>> server mode then upgrading (all amd64). Why not give dapper a try? I've
>> installed from Flight 3 to flight 6 (each time from iso's) without any
>> problems on my amd64 system. Give it a try -- yeah another download and
>> another cd to burn, but you won't regret it.
>>
>>
> You really don't even need to download ISOs...I upgraded from hedgehog
> to drake simply by editing /etc/apt/sources.list and changing all
> occurrences of hoary to dapper, running sudo apt-get update, sudo
> apt-get dist-upgrade, then going to work.  Came back that evening and
> answered a few questions, rebooted, and I'm running Dapper Drake Flight-6.
> 
:s/hoary/breezy/g

Sorry.

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