Re: Need Help Installing Debian on My Computer

michael_at_etalon.net
Date: 08/15/05

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    Quoting Court Thomas <court@seanet.com>:

    > I have a new computer and am having a hard time installing linux. The
    > computer is a Dell XPS pentium 4 system. The BIOS identifies the system as a
    > 64 bit system. I've tried installing SUSE 9.3 but with little luck.
    >
    > My computer is capable of booting from the CD drive, but when I try booting
    > the system with the Debian ia64 disk, the system states that it can't boot
    > from the disk. When I try booting with the Debian i386 disk, the
    > installation processing can't find the hard disks. I know that the computer
    > can boot from the CD drive because I can boot Knoppix 3.9. I've tried using
    > debootstrap from Knoppix (since it's based on Debian) but when I
    > debootstraping the i386 Debian 3.1, the system dies and when I try
    > debootstrapping the ia64 Debian 3.1, the system fails trying to mount proc.
    >
    The IA-64 shouldn't work on your system. That port is designed for the
    intel Itantium chip. If you want to take adavantage of your 64 bit box,
    try the AMD64 (x86_64) port of Debian.

    Did you try the running the installer with a 2.6 kernel?

    It would help if you described the type of hard disks you have.

    Cheers,
    Mike 

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