amd64 installation report

[Mark Shuttleworth]

Thanks Matt & Tollef, looking forward to seeing this in action! If 
anyone else out there has access to Athlon boxen it would be super to 
get more reports at this stage. I'd like to support the amd64 community 
so if we need to post an invitation for testing in AMD64 user groups, 
and some bounties for work needed, let's do it.

Matt Zimmerman wrote:

>First, the framebuffer wasn't activated, so the language chooser wasn't
>quite so spiffy.
>
>Then, most of d-i was pretty standard, and worked, up until it came time to
>install the boot loader.  grub-install, from the version of grub currently
>in Warty, fails miserably on amd64.  However, it apparently didn't even get
>a chance to try, since grub-installer was missing from the initrd on the CD.
>As a result, the system didn't boot.  This seems to have been a buildd
>issue, and grub-installer should be built soon.
>
>With a hint from Tollef, I downloaded a different grub package, installed it
>by hand, and ran grub-install by hand.  This worked, and I was able to
>proceed.
>
>Since then, things are looking fairly encouraging.  Firefox, Evolution, and
>various other desktop bits all seem to work.  OpenOffice.org is missing, but
>that's a known issue and Tollef is working on it.
>
>  
>

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