Hi Stephen,
Thanks for your wonderful suggestion:
On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, Stephen Cormier wrote:
> On Sunday 16 July 2006 01:50, Rob Hurle wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I am trying to set up Debian 3.1r1 (Sarge) on a box with an
> > Intel D945GNT motherboard and twin 3.2GHz processors and 1Gb of
> > memory. It has two SATA disc drives. Unfortunately, none of the
> > peripherals is recognised - not the network cards, nor the two disc
> > drives. I've tried booting with the 2.6 kernel (2.4 is the default, I
> > think - tried that first) and, based on some advice from mailing
> > lists, declared less memory (500M in this case). None of these things
> > has worked. There is also no floppy on this system, only a CD drive.
> > The system boots, ready for installation, from the CD, but then,
> > nothing can be seen ("No media to partition" is the final message).
> > Any ideas would be welcome. Thank you.
>
> You could try one of the backported sarge install discs from the following
> site that have newer kernels.
>
> http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/
>
I downloaded this, and am away (sorry for the delay in reply - my ISP
has been having "issues" with e-mail). I still have a few questions
about this:
1. I have 2 processors, so would like an SMP kernel. Where could I
get such a thing from?
2. I am very new to Debian (coming from FreeBSD) and I wonder if
anyone on the list can give me a pointer as to how to incorporate a
new kernel (RTFM - sure, but which FM?)? I tried using aptitude(8)
but it only finds earlier kernels than the one I picked up from the
above URL (which was 2.6.16-2-686) and these bomb (not surprisingly).
>From where can I get these kernels, and can I get aptitude to install
them?
Thanks again for your help.
Cheers,
Rob Hurle
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