Re: Need Help Installing Debian on My Computer

From: Court Thomas (court_at_seanet.com)
Date: 08/23/05

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Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 19:52:42 -0700

    On Sunday 14 August 2005 9:52 pm, michael@etalon.net wrote:
    > 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.
    I ordered a set of Debian 3.1 AMD64 disks. I had no better luck installing
    from them. Both the AMD64 and i386 disks report that they can find
    partionable disks.
    >
    > Did you try the running the installer with a 2.6 kernel?
    I tried booting linux26 and expert26 on the i386 distribution. The AMD64
    distribution reported that there wasn't a linux26 option (maybe because it
    only has a 2.6 kernel?). Booting just linux on the AMD64 distribution didn't
    work either. I tried just about all the options listed from the boot help
    screen on both distributions, but with no luck.
    >
    > It would help if you described the type of hard disks you have.
    I have serial ATA drives. The boot.msg file (from a SuSE installation) lists
    the drive that I hope to install Debian on as a HDS725050KLA360 if that's any
    help. The primary drive is a Western Digital, but it's formatted for a NTFS
    file system. I'm keeping my Linux physically separate from that other
    operating system.
    >
    > Cheers,
    > Mike 

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