On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 03:28:53PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > Nu-Genoa wrote: > > Good Morning, > > > > I am just wondering if anyone has had trouble installing Debian > > (sarge) onto a HP a1540n machine. I am looking for other users that > > have this system or similiar to it and have Debian ( or any distro of > > linux ) installed and fully operational. > > > > The main and first problem I ran into was the onboard ethernet not > > being found. According to HP's website it is listed as a 10/100 > > Marvell 88EC031. Under windows it says it is a nVidia onboard lan card > > but I am not sure if it has to do with the chipset and all. It has the > > nForce 430/410 drivers installed. When trying to configure the card in > > the install it can't be automatically found so someone told me to use > > the forcedeth drivers but they require an IRQ and under WinXP, the lan > > doesn't have an IRQ. Any ideas? I am thinking about skipping this part > > and coming back but I would rather fix it during the install to have > > inet to use apt power. > > > > Also, how good is debian in SATA support? I heard it isn't great and > > that I might run into trouble there as well. > > Christopher, > > I can't answer your question about the network card, but I can tell you > that Debian (etch and I assume sarge) has no trouble with SATA. It's > treated as a SCSI drive, so instead of being hda, it's sda, but other > than that, it works the same.
sarge has trouble with SATA. etch generally does not. A
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