"Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 04:11:57PM -0500, b smyt wrote: > My cd-rom is not recognized by the debian installer > because of the intel 965 chipset on my asus p5b > mainboard. I know there is a way to install from an > iso image on the hard drive but I am having problems > understanding how to get this to work. I currently > have mandriva installed and lots of extra harddrive > space for other distrubutions. I'd like to load etch > and 64studio which is a debian based multimedia > distribution. > > I believe I need the hd-media version of the debian > installer, which I can't find in the ia64 installation > manual at > http://www.us.debian.org/releases/stable/ia64/. > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-ia64/current/images/
First, you are using the wrong architecture. The P5B is an amd64 board: - Intel(R) Core2 Extreme / Core2 Duo Ready - Intel(R) Pentium(R) Extreme / Pentium(R) D / Pentium(R) 4 / Celeron(R) D Ready http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1=3&l2=11&l3=307&model=1178&modelmenu=1 The ia64 architecture is only for Itanium CPUs. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com Thanks for noticing that I had the wrong architecture. I have an Intel E6300 and didn't realize the connection with amd64. With that straightened out, I was able to get etch installed today. I basically followed the debian manuals, but I am detailing what I did, in case someone else can benefit. The problem with the intel 965 chipset is quiet common and prevents using cd-roms to do the installation of most distributions at this time. With a version of linux already on the computer, the approach of booting an iso image copied to the hard drive, followed by net-install works. Luckly, I was able to install mandriva-2007, from cd-rom, on my new setup, a week ago. - From http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ , chose "other images" then chose amd64 which goes to http://people.debian.org/~aba/d-i/images/daily/ - Chose hd-media, and downloaded the vmlinuz and initrd.gz files from inside the /gtk directory, and put them in /boot/newinstall on my Mandriva-2007 system. - from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/, I went to "netinst CD image" then amd64, and downloaded "debian-testing-amd64-netinstall.iso". I put this into the / directory of the Mandriva-2007 system. - I added this entry to grub file menu.lst in /boot/grub of mandriva-2007 title debian install kernel (hd0,0)/newinstall/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 ramdisk_size=12000000 devfs=mount,dall initrd (hd0,0)/newinstall/initrd.gz - when I booted, the installer started, scanned and found the iso file and from there, the net installation was straight forward. I tried to install the 64studio_11.11.1_i386.an_iso in the same way but this did not work, even though its a debian amd64 derivative. It was mounted but then it looked for the cd-rom. Thanks, Bob --------------------------------- Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. Go to Yahoo! Answers.
