Mark Seven Smith said: [..] > > how can I install Debian on my second drive, without having > to go through the install procedure (which is incompatible > in *text mode* with my video card)? [..] > cable modem, ATI Rage 128 video card
i can't imagine an ati rage 128 not working with the debian installer. sure it most likely will not work with xfree 3.3.6 but the installer is just VGA 16colors. if you can see the bios and stuff on the screen as the machine boots the installer should work. to do what your asking the way ive done it in the past was to install it on another system, burn the image of the partition to a cd(at the time i used drive image i think, about 2 years ago), and wrote it to the new drive. i had to install this way because it was on an old piece of shit laptop which didn't have pcmcia cdromdrivers for the cd drive at the time. then you'll have to copy the kernel over to the redhat boot partition and add an entry into whatever program it uses to boot. grub? lilo? something else? i dunno.
