Re: Installing debian on new hardware.

From: Ron Jr (ron.l.johnson_at_cox.net)
Date: 10/29/03

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Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 05:31:18 -0600

    On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 02:18, Elie De Brauwer wrote:
    > Hello list, i was just wondering,
    >
    > I have a new machine PIV 2.8ghz with hyperthreading, and a serial ata disk.
    > What is the best way to launch a debian install on it ? Currently there's a
    > gentoo with a custom kernel on it which i had to install from a custom chroot
    > (since there were problems booting and detecting the disks). But gentoo
    > doesn't 'feel' right and i want to turn the machine in a debian. Are there
    > any recents boot disks,iso, ... available that are able to boot this machine,
    > or how can i create my custom boot disks starting from the current kernel, or
    > is it possible to launch the debian install from a chrooted environment ?

    Is it only SATA, or also PATA? 

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