Debian 64amd

siawash · 01-22-2010, 12:01 PM

I am totally confused about my distro. I am trying to get flasH player for my iceweasel. Getting error saying I am running on an amd platform.

I was under the impression an amd distro wont even install on an Intel system. I am a 100% that my hardware is Intel.

Here is what uname -a gives me.

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sudo uname -a
[sudo] password for siawacsh: 
Linux debian 2.6.26-2-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Nov 5 02:23:12 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
siawacsh@debian:~$

Or is this just a naming mistake on the Debian's part?

the trooper · 01-22-2010, 12:09 PM

The amd64 versions of Debian also run on the Intel EM64T architecture as well.
So are running the correct version,if you you intended to install a 64bit o/s.
See the following link:

http://www.debian.org/ports/amd64/

craigevil · 01-22-2010, 02:27 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amd64

http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer

the trooper · 01-23-2010, 07:11 AM

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I am trying to get flasH player for my iceweasel

We did this already:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...64-bit-777669/

craigevil · 01-23-2010, 07:35 AM

http://wiki.debian.org/Aptitude or http://wiki.debian.org/Synaptic if you prefer a GUI package management tool.

if you still need realplayer its not in any repos you have to download it from http://www.real.com/linux then use dpkg or gdebi to install it.

Take the time to read the various docs and look through the wiki they cover pretty much anything one needs to know about running Debian.

the trooper · 01-23-2010, 08:17 AM

Craig,

I took the op through installing Realplayer also:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...64-bit-778585/

siawash · 01-23-2010, 05:07 PM

Thanks to every one here for your patience and generosity. My brain has been scattered all over the place recently. Even after thrawlling my previous threads several times I could't find the Flash player solution, mistakingly thinking that was for the 32 bit fix.
Having said that, craigevil's link provided a much easier to follow solution. So both Flash and real player are not working.
I suppose it just me who doe's find it easy to find answers on the official Debian site when compared to Slackware book. I have used the Debian's seach utility for Flash several times which lead me down a blind ally. I guess if I am going to use Debian I better get used to whats on offer.

Regarding the mounting issue, here is what I have found from another post.

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If a device is not being mounted during boot, it may be b/c the driver for that device has not been loaded yet at the time that /etc/fstab is read 
(and thus the device is not active yet and doesn't get mounted).  If you want to make sure it gets mounted during boot, you may need to take a look 
at the boot sequence for your distro and make changes as needed. Another thing you could try is adding a "mount" command of your own to one of 
your boot scripts.
 Most distros provide a file with a name like "rc.local" which gets executed late in the boot process and can be used to add your own custom commands to execute during boot

Maybe someone could help me expand on that. Does that mean I remove /hdc1 and the cowon from fstab, then create a mount script in /etc/rc.local?
Or do I leave fstab as is in addition to creating the script?